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    Active citizens, accountable governments

    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, decentralization of decision-making and consolidation of democracy.
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    Reform without ownership? Dilemmas in supporting security and justice sector reform in Honduras

    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 equilibrium very fragile.
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    Bolivia’s new constitution: towards participatory democracy and political pluralism?

    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, participatory and communitarian democracy and incorporates enhanced mechanisms and institutions for participatory democracy.
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    How presidents legislate: agenda control and policy success in Costa Rica

    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 power is the ability to control the legislative agenda during extraordinary sessions where the president decides which bills the legislature will consider.
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    Looking behind the window: measuring instrumental and normative reasoning in support for democracy

    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 to rely on an economic model of preferences formation, and tend to characterize the underlying psychological basis of preferences formation as utilitarian.
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    Motivating politicians: the impacts of monetary incentives on quality and performance

    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. This paper examines whether salaries of local politicians of Brazil's municipal governments affect legislative performance, political competition, and the types of politicians that run for office.
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    Electoral accountability and corruption: evidence from the audits of local governments

    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 test whether electoral accountability affects the corruption practices of incumbent politicians.
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    Bolivia: social movements, populism, and democracy

    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.
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    Understanding populism and political participation: the case of Venezuela

    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 constants throughout Venezuela’s democratic period. This paper examines new forms of political participation and state-civil society interaction in Venezuela. Findings include:
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    Poverty, inequality and the new Left in Latin America

    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 leftist regimes in a growing number of countries.

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