Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Political representation and representative assemblies
  • The party system: parties and actors in Panama's assembly
  • Formal institutional incentives to behavior
  • Informal institutions and assembly members' behavior
  • Political advancement through reelection: prospects and possibilities in Panama
  • Political advancement through reelection: the legal and illegal uses of patronage
  • Political advancement through reelection: party switching and electoral manipulation
  • Personal enrichment through legal means: assembly members' wages in comparative perspective
  • Personal enrichment through legal means: expanding emoluments and privileges
  • Personal enrichment through illegal means
  • Preserving immunity through reelection.