This paper contributes to an agenda that views the effects of policies and institutional reforms as dependent on the structure of political incentives for national and subnational political actors. The paper studies political incentive structures at the subnational level and the mechanisms...

This presentation is an input to a regional discussion on finding practical methods by which governments in Latin America and the Caribbean might improve their policymaking and improve the analytical framework within which questions about the policy process are asked. It provides a brief summary...

El empleo público nacional en Argentina fue objeto de numerosos cambios en la normativa en los últimos años. El SINAPA, creado en 1991, representa el intento más reciente de lograr un escalafón general basado en criterios meritocráticos, y con una visión global de la gestión de recursos...

We review the experiences of developing countries with market-oriented reforms, using the tools of modern political economy. We impose intellectual discipline by requiring that actors behave rationally using available information and that basic economic relationships such as budget constraints...

Predominant views on the political economy of Latin America and the Caribbean tend to emphasize that elite domination helps to understand the high levels of inequality. The contemporary fiscal version of that assertion goes something like “the rich are powerful and they dont like taxes, hence...