Informal institutions and democracy : lessons from Latin America / edited by Gretchen Helmke, Steven Levitsky.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Helmke, Gretchen, 1967-

Levitsky, Steven.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political culture--Latin America--Congresses.

Political culture.

Democratization--Latin America--Congresses.

Democratization.

Democracy--Latin America--Congresses.

Democracy.

Politics, Practical--Latin America--Congresses.

Politics, Practical.

Latin America--Politics and government--1980---Congresses.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 351 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Informal institutions & democracy

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The editors present this analysis within a fourfold conceptual framework: complementary institutions, which fill gaps in formal rules or enhance their efficacy; accommodative informal institutions, which blunt the effects of dysfunctional formal institutions; competing informal institutions, which directly subvert the formal rules; and substitutive informal institutions, which replace ineffective formal institutions.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction; PART I: THE INFORMAL POLITICS OF EXECUTIVE-LEGISLATIVE RELATIONS; 1 Accommodating Informal Institutions and Chilean Democracy; 2 How Informal Electoral Institutions Shape the Brazilian Legislative Arena; 3 Crafting Legislative Ghost Coalitions in Ecuador: Informal Institutions and Economic Reform in an Unlikely Case; PART II: INFORMAL INSTITUTIONS AND ELECTORAL POLITICS; 4 Informal Institutions When Formal Contracting Is Prohibited: Campaign Finance in Brazil; 5 The Difficult Road from Caudillismo to Democracy: The Impact of Clientelism in Honduras

6 Do Informal Rules Make Democracy Work? Accounting for Accountability in Argentina; PART III: INFORMAL INSTITUTIONS AND PARTY POLITICS; 7 The Birth and Transformation of the Dedazo in Mexico; 8 Election Insurance and Coalition Survival: Formal and Informal Institutions in Chile; 9 Informal Institutions and Party Organization in Latin America; PART IV: INFORMAL JUDICIAL INSTITUTIONS AND THE RULE OF LAW; 10 The Rule of (Non)Law: Prosecuting Police Killings in Brazil and Argentina; 11 Mexico's Postelectoral Concertacesiones: The Rise and Demise of a Substitutive Informal Institution

12 Dispensing Justice at the Margins of Formality: The Informal Rule of Law in Latin America; Conclusion; Afterword: On Informal Institutions, Once Again; Notes; References; List of Contributors; Index

Notes:

"The volume emerged out of two conferences on informal institutions. The first, entitled 'Informal Institutions and Politics in the Developing World, ' was held at Harvard University in April 2002 ... The second conference, entitled 'Informal Institutions and Politics in Latin America: Understanding the Rules of the Game, ' was held at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, in April 2003"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-335) and index.

ISBN:

0-8018-8926-X

OCLC:

923193261