Name: Argentine Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness
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Author: Steven Levitsky
ISBN: 9780271027166

portada Argentine Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness

Argentine Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness

Type

Physical Book

Author

Steven Levitsky

Publisher

Penn State University Press

Year

2006

Language

English

Pages

336

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780271027166

Edition No.

Synopsis "Argentine Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness "

During the 1990s Argentina was the only country in Latin America to combine radical economic reform and full democracy. In 2001, however, the country fell into a deep political and economic crisis and was widely seen as a basket case. This book explores both developments, examining the links between the (real and apparent) successes of the 1990s and the 2001 collapse. Specific topics include economic policymaking and reform, executive-legislative relations, the judiciary, federalism, political parties and the party system, and new patterns of social protest. Beyond its empirical analysis, the book contributes to several theoretical debates in comparative politics. Contemporary studies of political institutions focus almost exclusively on institutional design, neglecting issues of enforcement and stability. Yet a major problem in much of Latin America is that institutions of diverse types have often failed to take root. Besides examining the effects of institutional weakness, the book also uses the Argentine case to shed light on four other areas of current debate: tensions between radical economic reform and democracy; political parties and contemporary crises of representation; links between subnational and national politics; and the transformation of state-society relations in the post-corporatist era. Besides the editors, the contributors are Javier Auyero, Ernesto Calvo, Kent Eaton, Sebastián Etchemendy, Gretchen Helmke, Wonjae Hwang, Mark Jones, Enrique Peruzzotti, Pablo T. Spiller, Mariano Tommasi, and Juan Carlos Torre.

Steven Levitsky

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Steven Levitsky is an American political scientist born in 1968 in Ithaca, New York. He is a professor of Government and Latin American Studies at Harvard University and director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. His research focuses on comparative democracy, authoritarian regimes, and political institutions, with a special emphasis on Latin America. Levitsky is known for his work on competitive authoritarian regimes and his analysis of informal institutions in politics

Among his most notable works is How Democracies Die (2018), co-written with Daniel Ziblatt, which examines how elected leaders can gradually undermine democratic institutions. This book was awarded the NDR Kultur Sachbuchpreis in 2018 and the Goldsmith Book Prize in 2019.

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