This paper explores labor conflicts in the Argentine education sector and provides a model that explains the politicization of public sector labor relations in a context of high discretion in the application of rules. First, we argue that in those contexts, institutions do not generate stable...

The architecture of public decision making in the world is being changed through processes of “economic integration” and of “decentralization”. Some policy decisions are now taken at a higher level (i.e., monetary policy in Europe, trade policy in part of South America), while others are...