As policymakers and researchers focus more on the question of the impact of governance in
economic development, they have required measures of the quality of governance to set …

This is the second of five ambitious volumes theorizing the structure of governance above
and below the central state. This book is written for those interested in the character, causes …

High Courts and Economic Governance in Argentina and Brazil analyzes how high courts
and elected leaders in Latin America interacted over neoliberal restructuring, one of the …

Although they share similar socio-economic and cultural characteristics as well as their
recent political histories, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay differ radically in their abortion …

One of the major objectives of good governance is human development. Many worry that
without good governance, many developing countries may become failed states. Using one …

Although national disaster risk reduction policies in Argentina are still incipient and
fragmented, the city of Santa Fe managed to adopt flood-risk management strategies after a …

The main theme of this study is chosen in response to the general consensus on the
importance of conducting a comprehensive study that may shape the economic policies and …

In 2001 Argentina experienced a massive economic crisis: businesses went bankrupt,
unemployment spiked, and nearly half the population fell below the poverty line. In the midst …

Under conditions of weak statehood, societal actors are supposed to assume functions
usually attributed to the state. Social self-organization is expected to emerge when the state …

Neopatrimonialism relates to the co-existence of two different logics of political domination:
legal-rational rule, which is associated with modern statehood, and patrimonial rule, which …