expanded edition of "Democracies in Development: Politics and Reform in Latin America" analyzes the effects of institutions on … democratic governance, and offers tentative conclusions on the types of reforms that may hold promise for strengthening democracy …

This book explains how economies, institutions, and politics interact to produce budget outcomes in Latin America, a … region in which informality dominates public governance. It includes detailed country analyses which provide comparative …

governance and people-centered development in accordance with the principles contained in the United Nations Millennium …

governance as they apply to the metropolis, and unfolds cases of institutional and programmatic arrangements to tackle such …

International Institute for Governance of Catalonia in November 2003, with support from the government of Catalonia and the Special …: democracy, governance and well-being. The book is a compilation of selected papers presented at the conference that address …, particularly in Latin America. This book aims to contribute to the reflection and debate on the issues of democracy, governance and …

Public-private collaboration in productive development policy in Costa Rica frequently takes the form of policy co-governance …. This paper analyzes five cases of co-governance: tourism, fisheries, rice, coffee, and the attraction of foreign direct … investment (FDI). When co-governance has been used in conjunction with market discipline and as a means to discover and remove …

institutions emerge, with emphasis on the most central democratic institution: the legislature. It reviews extant theories of …