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Politics beyond the capital : the design of subnational institutions in South America /
"The book focuses on the four Latin American countries where politicians have most extensively engaged in the redesign of subnational institutions: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay. By reframing the "politics of decentralization" as the "politics of designing subnational ins...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
2004.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Introduction. Explaining decentralization and re-centralization
- Definitions, cases and patterns
- Part 2. Nineteenth century origins, twentieth century trajectories
- Decentralization from below : Argentina before 1966, Brazil before 1964
- Decentralization from above: Chile and Uruguay before 1973
- Part 3. : Bureaucratic authoritarianism beyond the capital
- Subnational reforms by military governments
- Part 4. : Subnational institutions in the third wave of democracy
- The reemergence of the governors in Argentina and Brazil
- National engineering of subnational institutions in Chile and Uruguay
- Part 5. Conclusion
- Comparing waves and approaches.