Political Competition, Partisanship, and Policy Making in Latin American Public Utilities
Political Competition, Partisanship, and Policy Making in Latin American Public Utilities

Author: Maria Victoria Murillo

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-08-24

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1139483463

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This book studies policymaking in the Latin American electricity and telecommunication sectors. Murillo's analysis of the Latin American electricity and telecommunications sectors shows that different degrees of electoral competition and the partisan composition of the government were crucial in resolving policymakers' tension between the interests of voters and the economic incentives generated by international financial markets and private corporations in the context of capital scarcity. Electoral competition by credible challengers dissuaded politicians from adopting policies deemed necessary to attract capital inflows. When electoral competition was low, financial pressures prevailed, but the partisan orientation of reformers shaped the regulatory design of market-friendly reforms. In the post-reform period, moreover, electoral competition and policymakers' partisanship shaped regulatory redistribution between residential consumers, large users, and privatized providers.

Non-Policy Politics
Non-Policy Politics

Author: Ernesto Calvo

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-02-14

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1108497004

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Explores how non-policy resources, including administrative competence, patronage, and activists' networks, shape both electoral results and which voters get what.

The Latin American Voter
The Latin American Voter

Author: Ryan E Carlin

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2015-07-21

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 047205287X

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Public opinion and political behavior experts explore voter choice in Latin America with this follow-up to the 1960 landmark The American Voter

Social Policy Expansion in Latin America
Social Policy Expansion in Latin America

Author: Candelaria Garay

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-12-29

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 1108107974

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Throughout the twentieth century, much of the population in Latin America lacked access to social protection. Since the 1990s, however, social policy for millions of outsiders - rural, informal, and unemployed workers and dependents - has been expanded dramatically. Social Policy Expansion in Latin America shows that the critical factors driving expansion are electoral competition for the vote of outsiders and social mobilization for policy change. The balance of partisan power and the involvement of social movements in policy design explain cross-national variation in policy models, in terms of benefit levels, coverage, and civil society participation in implementation. The book draws on in-depth case studies of policy making in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico over several administrations and across three policy areas: health care, pensions, and income support. Secondary case studies illustrate how the theory applies to other developing countries.

The Role of the State in Investor-State Arbitration
The Role of the State in Investor-State Arbitration

Author: Shaheeza Lalani

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

Published: 2015-01-08

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13: 9004282254

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Edited by Shaheeza Lalani and Rodrigo Polanco Lazo, The Role of the State in Investor-State Arbitration is a collection of contributions from lawyers, arbitrators and political scientists on the development of the concept of the “State” in a field that currently presents an increasing number of controversial disputes: Investor-State Arbitration. The book analyzes the limits of the host State as a regulator, studying issues such as attribution and the role of State-Owned Enterprises and sub-State entities; the changing role of the home State in Investor-State disputes, including its direct participation in Investor-State arbitration and State to State dispute settlement; and the overall role that both home and host States can play in the improvement of Investor-State Dispute Settlement.

Understanding Institutional Weakness
Understanding Institutional Weakness

Author: Daniel M. Brinks

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-06-27

Total Pages: 75

ISBN-13: 9781108738880

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This Element introduces the concept of institutional weakness, arguing that weakness or strength is a function of the extent to which an institution actually matters to social, economic or political outcomes. It then presents a typology of three forms of institutional weakness: insignificance, in which rules are complied with but do not affect the way actors behave; non-compliance, in which state elites either choose not to enforce the rules or fail to gain societal cooperation with them; and instability, in which the rules are changed at an unusually high rate. The Element then examines the sources of institutional weakness.