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Title Argentine democracy : the politics of institutional weakness / edited by Steven Levitsky and Maria Victoria Murillo.

Imprint University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2005.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  306.20982 Ar37 2005    ---  Available
Description xii, 325 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note "The book project began with the conference 'Rethinking Dual Transitions: Argentine Politics in the 1990s in Comparative Perspective,' which was held at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs in March 2003."--Acknowledgments.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-314) and index.
Contents Building castles in the sand? : the politics of institutional weakness in Argentina / Steven Levitsky, Maria Victoria Murillo -- Institutional foundations of public policy : a transaction cost approach and its application to Argentina / Pablo T. Spiller, Mariano Tommasi -- Old actors in new markets : transforming the populist/industrial coalition in Argentina, 1989-2001 / Sebastian Etchemendy -- Menem and the governors : intergovernmental relations in the 1990s / Kent Eaton -- Provincial party bosses : keystone of the Argentine Congress / Mark P. Jones, Wonjae Hwang -- Enduring uncertainty : court-executive relations in Argentina during the 1990s and beyond / Gretchen Helmke -- Citizens versus political class : the crisis of partisan representation / Juan Carlos Torre -- Crisis and renovation : institutional weakness and the transformation of Argentine Peronism, 1983-2003 / Steven Levitsky -- New iron law of Argentine politics? : partisanship, clientelism, and governability in contemporary Argentina / Ernesto Calvo, Maria Victoria Murillo -- Demanding accountable government : citizens, politicians, and the perils of representative democracy in Argentina / Enrique Peruzzotti -- Protest and politics in contemporary Argentina / Javier Auyero -- Conclusion : Theorizing about weak institutions : lessons from the Argentine case / Steven Levitsky, Maria Victoria Murillo.
Subject Argentina -- Politics and government -- 1983-2002.
Argentina -- Politics and government -- 2002-
Argentina -- Economic policy.
Political culture -- Argentina.
Democracy -- Argentina.
Added Author Levitsky, Steven.
Murillo, Maria Victoria, 1967-
ISBN 0271027150 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780271027159 (cloth : alk. paper)
0271027169 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780271027166 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Standard No. NLGGC 282908005
YDXCP 2219039
YDXCP 2219037

 
    
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