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State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain
This book thoroughly examines the neoliberal state and its era in Latin America and Spain. It explores neoliberal public policies, power strategies, institutional resources, popular support, and social protest. The book advances neoliberalism as a state model: a power structure configured to implement radical policy proposals.
Patronage at Work
Describes what patronage employees do in exchange for their jobs and provides a novel explanation of why they do it.
State–Society Relations in Guatemala
By embedding Guatemala in recent conceptual and theoretical work in comparative politics and political economy, this volume advances knowledge about country’s politics, economy, and state-society interactions. The contributors examine the stubborn realities and challenges afflicting Guatemala during the post-Peace-Accords-era across the following subjects: the state, subnational governance, state-building, peacebuilding, economic structure and dynamics, social movements, civil-military relations, military coup dynamics, varieties of capitalism, corruption, and the level of democracy. The book deliberately avoids the perils of parochialism by placing the country within larger scholarly debates and paradigms.
The Politics of Patronage Appointments in Latin American Central Administrations
Although merit system selection and management of public personnel is thought of as the standard for good governance, public employees frequently are appointed by political officials rather than being members of a career civil service. In fact, there has been an increase in the level of patronage appointments and politicization of public administration over the past several decades as political leaders attempt to impose their control over the public bureaucracy. Although widespread, patronage appointments in the public sector are particularly important in Latin America, where there is a tradition of extensive patronage. The Politics of Patronage Appointments in Latin American Central Administrations seeks to understand the motivations of patrons when they make appointments, the roles appointees play, the skills required to play these roles, and what accounts for different modalities of patronage. It moves beyond the conventional condemnation of patronage to examine the multiple uses of political appointments, which can be crucial for obtaining the services of highly qualified individuals who otherwise might not be willing to work in the public sector.
A Middle-Quality Institutional Trap: Democracy and State Capacity in Latin America
Latin America is currently caught in a middle-quality institutional trap, combining flawed democracies and low-to-medium capacity States. Yet, contrary to conventional wisdom, the sequence of development - Latin America has democratized before building capable States - does not explain the region's quandary. States can make democracy, but so too can democracy make States. Thus, the starting point of political developments is less important than whether the State-democracy relationship is a virtuous cycle, triggering causal mechanisms that reinforce each other. However, the State-democracy interaction generates a virtuous cycle only under certain macroconditions. In Latin America, the State-democracy interaction has not generated a virtuous cycle: problems regarding the State prevent full democratization and problems of democracy prevent the development of state capacity. Moreover, multiple macroconditions provide a foundation for this distinctive pattern of State-democracy interaction. The suboptimal political equilibrium in contemporary Latin America is a robust one.
Ética, función pública y derechos humanos
Una de las tesis que subyace en esta obra colectiva es que las entidades públicas y sus integrantes tienen un ineludible compromiso de reafirmar la importancia de la ética como una herramienta o asignatura imprescindible para el fortalecimiento de la Administración pública en todos los niveles de gobierno. Son tiempos álgidos en los que la ciudadanía reclama ver la práctica gubernamental no como una simple suma de voluntades para delegar el ejercicio del poder, sino como el espacio de lo transparente. De este modo, se persigue arraigar la convicción de que el ejercicio del poder, al margen de los principios éticos, desemboca en actitudes que dañan el sano desarrollo de todas las in...
El sistema político de Chile
A tres décadas de la realización del plebiscito del 5 de octubre de 1988, que culminara con la victoria de la opción «No», promovida por los opositores al régimen militar, este libro ofrece un balance sobre los rasgos adoptados por el sistema político chileno configurado a partir de ese evento y que se ha venido proyectando hasta el momento actual. En doce capítulos, se abordan aspectos específicos de su funcionamiento, tales como el carácter semisoberano de la democracia, el poder adquirido por la presidencia, las atribuciones del Congreso Nacional, la dinámica del sistema de partidos, la cultura cívica, las elecciones, los medios de comunicación, las políticas públicas, la representación de intereses, el Tribunal Constitucional y el Poder Judicial.
