Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / ECPR Press
Pages: 346
Trim: 6 x 9⅛
978-1-78661-111-6 • Paperback • November 2018 • $39.95 • (£24.95)
Jorge P Gordin is Associate Professor of Political Science at Universidad Diego Portales and Executive Editor of the Journal of Politics in Latin America.
Lucio R Renno is Associate Professor in the Political Science Institute of the University of Brasília.
List of Tables / List of Figures / 1. Introduction: Institutional Innovation and the Steering of Conflicts in Latin America, Jorge P. Gordin and Lucio R. Renno / Part I: Founding Moments of Institutional Creation in Latin America / 2. The Architecture of Governments in Conflict Environments: The Origin and Crystallisation of Presidentialism in Latin America, Sergio Toro Maureira and Juan Carlos Arellano González / 3. The Politics of Electoral Reforms: The Origins of Proportional Representation in Brazil and the Electoral Code of 1932-57, Paolo Ricci and Jaqueline Porto Zulini / 4. Copartnership and Competition in the Building of Uruguayan Democracy, Daniel Chasquetti / Part II: Institutional Resiliency in Latin America: Lock-in and Suboptimal Effects / 5. Incongruent Federalism as a Solution to Territorial Conflict: (Political) Virtues and (Normative) Pitfalls, Carlos Gervasoni / 6. The Forgotten Principle of One Person, One Vote in the Chilean Electoral Map, 1988–2013, Olivia Montecino Zúñiga and Patricio Navia / Part III: Institutional Innovation and Remodelling in Latin America: Identity and Distributive Concerns / 7. Constitutional Courts as Third-Party Mediators in Conflict Resolution: The Case of the Right to Prior Consultation in Latin American Countries, Andrea Pozas-Loyo and Julio Rios-Figueroa / 8. (How) Do National Authoritarian Regimes Manage Conflictive Ethnically Diverse Populations? Evidence from the Case of Mexico, Allyson Lucinda Benton / 9. Political Ambition and Subnational Redistributive Spending, Lucas González and Germán Lodola / 10. An Institutional Architecture for Social Inclusion: The Creation of the Bolsa Família Programme and the Social Development Ministry in Brazil, Lucio R. Renno / 11. Social Inclusion Comes First, not Ideology: Legislators’ Budgetary Preferences in Brazil, Carlos Pereira and Frederico Bertholini / 12. Participatory Self-governance and Conflict Intensification in Bolivarian Venezuela, Matthew Rhodes-Purdy / Index