Populism and Liberal Democracy is the first book to offer a comprehensive theory about
populism during both its emergence and consolidation phases in three geographical …

Latin American State Building in Comparative Perspective provides an account of long-run
institutional development in Latin America that emphasizes the social and political …

Rents to Riches> focuses on the political economy of the detailed decisions that
governments make at each step of the natural resource management (NRM) value chain …

In this article, the authors argue that where institutions are strong, actors are more likely to
participate in the political process through institutionalized arenas, while where they are …

Latin America and the Caribbean is a middle-income region. The typical country in the
region has an income per capita about 25 percent above the typical country in the world, but …

Governance and political economy analysis has a crucial part to play in enhancing the
effectiveness of development. Across the World Bank, there is a widely shared perception …

This manuscript was written over the course of 2012. It was Adrian Leftwich's last substantial
piece of work before undergoing gruelling treatment for lung cancer and a short, but typically …

Brazil is the world's sixth-largest economy, and for the first three-quarters of the twentieth
century was one of the fastest-growing countries in the world. While the country underwent …

Tomando en cuenta aportaciones recientes realizadas por académicos reputados, tales
como M. Howlett, B. Cashore, G. Capano y J. Real-Dato, este documento busca abordar las …

This paper surveys selected themes in the political economy of policymaking in Latin
America, with an emphasis on recent research focusing on actual decision and …