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Argentine democracy : the politics of institutional weakness

This book explores both political and economical developments, examining the links between the (real and apparent) successes of the 1990s and the 2001 collapse. Specific topics include economic policymaking and reform, executive-legislative relations, the judiciary, federalism, political parties and the party system, and new patterns of social protest. Advertising
Print Book, English, ©2005
Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pa., ©2005
Aufsatzsammlung
xii, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780271027159, 9780271027166, 0271027150, 0271027169
61130673
Building castles in the sand? : the politics of institutional weakness in Argentina / Steven Levitsky and María Victoria Murillo
The institutional foundations of public policy : a transaction cost approach and its application to Argentina / Pablo T. Spiller and Mariano Tommasi
Old actors in new markets : transforming the populist/industrial coalition in Argentina, 1989-2001 / Sebastián Etchemendy
Menem and the governors : intergovernmental relations in the 1990s / Kent Eaton
Provincial party bosses : keystone of the Argentine Congress / Mark P. Jones and Wonjae Hwang
Enduring uncertainty : court-executive relations in Argentina during the 1990s and beyond / Gretchen Helmke
Citizens versus political class : the crisis of partisan representation / Juan Carlos Torre
Crisis and renovation : institutional weakness and the transformation of Argentine Peronism, 1983-2003 / Steven Levitsky
The new iron law of Argentine politics? : partisanship, clientelism, and governability in contemporary Argentina / Ernesto Calvo and María Victoria Murillo
Demanding accountable government : citizens, politicians, and the perils of representative democracy in Argentina / Enrique Peruzzotti
Protest and politics in contemporary Argentina / Javier Auyero
Conclusion : theorizing about weak institutions : lessons from the Argentine case / Steven Levitsky and María Victoria Murillo
"The book project began with the conference 'Rethinking Dual Transitions: Argentine Politics in the 1990s in Comparative Perspective, ' which was held at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs in March 2003"--Ackowledgments