The presidential politics literature depicts presidents either as all-powerful actors or figureheads and seeks to explain outcomes accordingly. The president and the executive branch are nonetheless usually treated as black boxes, particularly in developing countries, even though the presidency...

Does exposure to crises reduce the citizens' trust in a country's president? Are individuals willing to accept fiscal reforms and make personal economic sacrifices if it would help the country to leave the crisis faster? We take advantage of two survey panels in Argentina and Uruguay, with a...

Front Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- 1 Social Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean -- Progress and Persistent Challenges in the Social Sector -- Political Economy and Social Network Analysis: A Two-Pronged Approach to Social Policy Making --...

Este trabajo investiga las condiciones para el desarrollo de políticas sociales subnacionales autónomas de las políticas nacionales en países federales. Propone un esquema analítico según el cual el desarrollo de políticas públicas subnacionales autónomas en una federación es más...

This paper investigates the political economy of fiscal reform activism in Argentina since the late 1980s. Between 1988 and 2008, tax legislation was changed 83 times, fiscal federal rules 14 times, and budgetary institutions sixteen times. Tax and budgetary reforms moved from centralizing...

¿Qué determina la capacidad de los países para diseñar, aprobar e implementar políticas públicas efectivas? Para abordar esta pregunta, este libro analiza el proceso de formulación de políticas en ocho países latinoamericanos en base a una metodología común con fundamentos en la...