Audacious reforms institutional invention and democracy in Latin America / by Grindle, Merilee Serrill

Table of Contents: “…Audacious reforms : democratizing Latin America -- 2. Explaining the unexpected -- 3. Institutional invention in Venezuela : legitimizing the system -- 4. …”
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The politics of local participatory democracy in Latin America : institutions, actors, and interactions / by Montambeault, Françoise

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The construction of democracy lessons from practice and research /

Table of Contents: “…Domínguez and Anthony Jones -- Strengthening pluralism and public participation in new democracies / Grzegorz Ekiert and Anna Grzymala-Busse -- Economic challenges for the new democracies / Andrew Richards -- Constitutional design and the construction of democracy : a citizenship regime perspective / Richard Simeon and Luc Turgeon -- Executive-legislative relations and democratic consolidation : a review and some questions / Antônio Octávio Cintra and Marcelo Barroso Lacombe -- Toward more balanced approaches in the reform of the state / José Luis Méndez -- Military, police, politics, and society : does Latin America have a democratic model? / Rut Diamint -- Controlling corruption : government accountability, business ethics, and sectoral reform / Susan Rose-Ackerman -- Brazil : the ethics of responsibility / Fernando Henrique Cardoso -- Latin America : national and global factors in democratization and democratic consolidation / César Gaviria -- Democracy : a view from India / Inder K. …”
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