Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Dynamics of local empowerment: an overview / David J. Myers
  • Bogota: progress within a hostile environment / Alan G. Gilbert, Julio D. Dávila
  • Buenos Aires: the evolution of local governance / Miguel De Luca, Mark P. Jones, María Inés Tula
  • Caracas: incomplete empowerment amid geopolitical feudalism / Steve Ellner, David J. Myers
  • Guatemala City: mayors and the struggle for political autonomy / David Jickling, Alexandra Garcia-Iragorri
  • Havana: the dynamics of local executive power / Joseph L. Scarpaci
  • Lima: centralized authority vs. the struggle for autonomy / Henry A. Dietz, Martín Tanaka
  • Mexico City: the local-national dynamics of democratization / Diane E. Davis
  • Santiago: municipal decentralization in a centralized political system / Peter M. Siavelis, Esteban Valenzuela Van Treek, Giorgio Martelli
  • Sao Paolo: tensions between clientelism and participatory democracy / Lawrence S. Graham, Pedro Jacobi
  • Conclusions / Henry A. Dietz, David J. Myers.