Latin America and Caribbean

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Monitoring government policy in Latin America: ( C. Dixon;L. Valverdes;M. Carolina da Silva / International HIV/AIDS Alliance , 2011); Throughout Latin America a diverse range of interest groups form a vibrant and innovative civil society. These groups are the driving force behind progress towards greater transparency, decentraliz...
How can the security sector in Honduras be best supported?: ( J. Schünemann (ed) / Fride , 2010); The citizens of Honduras have been plagued with insecurity since the 2009 coup d’état which brought to the fore a sustained crisis of security and legitimacy making the political equ...
Assessing Bolivia's representative, participatory and communitarian democracy: ( A. Schilling-Vacaflor (ed) / German Institute of Global and Area Studies , 2010); Over the past two decades, Latin American countries have adopted new constitutions in a wave of constitutional change. Bolivia’s new constitution defines the country as a representative, partici...
Setting the agenda: more power to the President?: ( L.A. Schwindt-Bayer / The Kellogg Institute , 2010); Presidents around the world have access to a wide range of legislative powers—veto power, decree power, and exclusive bill introduction powers. However, an important but often overlooked powe...
Exploring democratic choice: ( R. Sarsfield (ed);F. Echegaray (ed) / Afrobarometer , 2008); Standard arguments of rationality applied to individual political decisions do not take into account the plurality of forms of political reasoning in the process of preference formation. Scholars tend...
Effects of higher salaries on politicians' performance in Brazil: ( C. Ferraz (ed);F. Finanz (ed) / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA , 2010); Governments that guarantee property rights and fight corruption are said to have the right incentives for economic prosperity. However, what determines the quality of government is less understood. Th...
Auditing in Brazil as an anti-corruption strategy: ( C. Ferraz;F. Finan / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA , 2009); Political institutions can affect corruption. The researcher uses audit reports from an anti-corruption programme in Brazil to construct new measures of political corruption in local governments and t...
The face of democracy in Bolivia: ( B. Larson;R. Madrid;R.A. Miyorga / Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars , 2008); This study aims to increase the understanding of Bolivians’ perspectives, values and attitudes regarding democracy and proposed changes to strengthen it. Although there are sharp differences amo...
Understanding political participation in Venezuela: ( L.V. Leon;D. Smilde;A.T. Sturbits (ed) / Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars , 2008); Since the onset of oil exploitation, the Venezuelan state has had enviable financial resources. Yet, effective policy implementation continues to be difficult. Corruption and inefficiency have been co...
The relationship between regime types and inequality and poverty in Latin America: ( Nora Lustig (ed) / Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars , 2009); Latin America is the most unequal region in the world although, since 2002, inequality has declined in 12 out of the17 countries. The fast fall in extreme poverty has coincided with the rise of leftis...