La corrupción constituye un fenómeno insidioso, amplio, variado y global que comprende
actividades tanto públicas como privadas. No se trata únicamente del tosco saqueo del …

This book proposes a framework for comparative analysis of the relation between the media
and the political system. Building on a survey of media institutions in eighteen West …

Research on democratic party competition in the formal spatial tradition of Downs and the
comparative-historical tradition of Lipset and Rokkan assumes that linkages of accountability …

Democracies used to be few in number, and most were located in the northwestern quarter
of the world. Over the last two decades, however, many countries have rid themselves of …

Global politics have been transformed by revolution and reformation in the last two decades.
As political systems crashed or teetered precariously and entire governments and national …

This is a bold new study of the recent emergence of democracy in Latin America. Leonardo
Avritzer shows that traditional theories of democratization fall short in explaining this …

This article explores the relationship between political clientelism and the development of
media systems in southern Europe and Latin America, considering the cases of Greece …

Studies of the city traditionally posit a division between a city's economy and its culture, with
culture subordinate in explanatory power to work. However, post–industrial and globalizing …

Informal institutions have grown in relevance for the analysis of new 'third
wave'democracies. The research strategy receives its impetus from the debate on neo …

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a shantytown in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, this article
studies the workings of Peronist “political clientelism” among the urban poor. It analyzes the …