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How Democracy Works: Political Institutions, Actors and Arenas in Latin American Policymaking
Scartascini, Carlos G.; Stein, Ernesto H.; Tommasi, Mariano - Inter-American Development Bank
Latin America. How Democracy Works takes a detailed look, from an institutional perspective, at each of the main actors on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943555
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DataGov: Governance Indicators Database Title: DataGob: Base de datos de indicadores de gobernabilidad
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American …; … - 2007
DataGov is a database that contains governance indicators around the world. The DataGov indicators come from publicly … cover four major areas: democracy, markets, public sector management and rule of law, as well as a number of key … other persons interested in tracking and evaluating governance performance and the impact of reforms in their countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010673437
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Political Institutions and Policy Outcomes in Colombia: The Effects of the 1991 Constitution
Cárdenas, Mauricio; Junguito, Roberto; Pachón, Mónica - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006
The 1991 Colombian Constitution strengthened the checks and balances of the political system by enhancing the role of Congress and the Constitutional Court, while somewhat limiting the powers of the President (who nonetheless remains extremely powerful even by Latin American standards). As a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943795
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Who Decides the Budget?: A Political Economy Analysis of the Budget Process in Latin America
Scartascini, Carlos; Stein, Ernesto H.; Abuelafia, Emmanuel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009
region in which informality dominates public governance. It includes detailed country analyses which provide comparative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010673728
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Veto Players, Fickle Institutions and Low-Quality Policies: The Policymaking Process in Ecuador
Acosta, Andrés Mejía; Araujo, María Caridad; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006
This paper seeks to understand why political actors, institutions and legal reforms have systematically failed to produce cooperation in the Ecuadorian policymaking process. From a comparative and historical standpoint, Ecuador has been trapped in a cycle of low-quality public policies that fail...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943735
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The Making of Policy: Institutionalized or Not?
Scartascini, Carlos G.; Tommasi, Mariano - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009
This paper develops a framework for analyzing different policymaking styles, their causes and their consequences in Latin America, finding that lower institutionalization and greater use of alternative political technologies (APTs) are more likely the lower the cost of using these technologies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943776
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Political Institutions, Policymaking Processes and Policy Outcomes in Brazil
Alston, Lee J.; Melo, Marcus André; Mueller, Bernardo; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006
This paper analyses the dynamics of policy-making among the various political institutions in Brazil. The authors find that the driving force behind policies in Brazil is the strong set of powers given to the President, though several institutions constrain and check this power, in particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943803
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Reforms and Counter-Reforms in Bolivia
Luis Carlos Jemio M.; Fernando Candia C.; José Luis Evia V. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009
process (PMP) and productivity. Bolivias PMP has shifted from a formal representative democracy to a participative and direct … type of democracy where street protest and other non-conventional forms of political participation have become dominant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943917
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Politics, Policies and the Dynamics of Aggregate Productivity in Colombia
Eslava, Marcela; Arjona, Marcela Meléndez - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009
This paper describes private actors' involvement in Colombia's policymaking process. While more transparent and formal channels are used to discuss horizontal policies, they are also less effective. The adoption of targeted policies, however, follows a faster track and depends more on political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943963
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The Political Economy of Productivity in Argentina: Interpretation and Illustration
Urbiztondo, Santiago; Cristini, Marcela; Moskovits, Cynthia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009
This paper examines how the main characteristics of Argentinas policymaking process (PMP) affect the productivity of its economy using the conceptual framework presented in Murillo, Scartascini and Tommasi (2008), Stein et al. (2008), Spiller and Tommasi (2007), and IDB (2005). First, the paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944304