Eliza Willis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3817729 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eliza Willis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eliza |
| FAMILY NAME | Willis |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Grinnell College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Cafta Conflict and Costa Rica's Democracy
The process of ratifying CAFTA in Costa Rica required traversing a contentious political landscape involving intense legislative battles, massive public demonstrations, and finally a national referendum in October 2007. By employing the mechanism of direct democracy to ratify a free trade agreement, Costa Rica made history. But how did this experiment with direct participation affect Costa Rica's democracy? This article evaluates what the referen…
Fiscal Decentralization
Theories of fiscal federalism explain the efficiency and other economic gains from decentralization but do not explain its extent and nature in practice. The authors develop a political theory of decentralization that focuses on the lines of political accountability between politicians at different levels of government. The more accountable central-level politicians—presidents and legislators—are to subnational politicians, the greater the extent…
The Politics of Decentralization in Latin America
One of the most significant developments in Latin American politics and political economy in the last two decades has been the increasing decentralization of government. This development has generated a substantial literature on the pros and cons of decentralization and on subnational politics but few attempts to explain differences in the pattern of decentralization across countries. Fiscal decentralization must be understood as a political barg…
Reviving local government
Reviving Local Government Eliza J. Willis (bio) Local Government in Latin America. By R. Andrew Nickson. Lynne Rienner, 1995. 316 pp. This book is an admirable contribution to the study of local government in Latin America, a subject that has been mostly neglected in writing on the consolidation of democracy. Recent books by leading scholars of Latin American politics contain no extended discussions of local or municipal government or intergovern…
Influencing industrial location through regional and local development in federal states
Explaining Bureaucratic Independence in Brazil
This article assesses competing explanations of the independence from political and economic elites achieved by Brazil's Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econömico (BNDE) during the 1950s. Whereas others have stressed the actions taken by Presidents Getúlio Vargas and Juscelino Kubitschek, I attribute the Bank's remarkable independence to a cadre of innovative civil servants. In this account, independence is measured by control over personnel re…
Fiscal Decentralization
Theories of fiscal federalism explain the efficiency and other economic gains from decentralization but do not explain its extent and nature in practice. The authors develop a political theory of decentralization that focuses on the lines of political accountability between politicians at different levels of government. The more accountable central-level politicians—presidents and legislators—are to subnational politicians, the greater the extent…
The Cafta Conflict and Costa Rica's Democracy
The process of ratifying CAFTA in Costa Rica required traversing a contentious political landscape involving intense legislative battles, massive public demonstrations, and finally a national referendum in October 2007. By employing the mechanism of direct democracy to ratify a free trade agreement, Costa Rica made history. But how did this experiment with direct participation affect Costa Rica's democracy? This article evaluates what the referen…
Explaining Bureaucratic Independence in Brazil
This article assesses competing explanations of the independence from political and economic elites achieved by Brazil's Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econömico (BNDE) during the 1950s. Whereas others have stressed the actions taken by Presidents Getúlio Vargas and Juscelino Kubitschek, I attribute the Bank's remarkable independence to a cadre of innovative civil servants. In this account, independence is measured by control over personnel re…
Explaining Bureaucratic Independence in Brazil
This article assesses competing explanations of the independence from political and economic elites achieved by Brazil's Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econömico (BNDE) during the 1950s. Whereas others have stressed the actions taken by Presidents Getúlio Vargas and Juscelino Kubitschek, I attribute the Bank's remarkable independence to a cadre of innovative civil servants. In this account, independence is measured by control over personnel re…
Influencing industrial location through regional and local development in federal states
Reviving local government
Reviving Local Government Eliza J. Willis (bio) Local Government in Latin America. By R. Andrew Nickson. Lynne Rienner, 1995. 316 pp. This book is an admirable contribution to the study of local government in Latin America, a subject that has been mostly neglected in writing on the consolidation of democracy. Recent books by leading scholars of Latin American politics contain no extended discussions of local or municipal government or intergovern…
The Politics of Decentralization in Latin America
One of the most significant developments in Latin American politics and political economy in the last two decades has been the increasing decentralization of government. This development has generated a substantial literature on the pros and cons of decentralization and on subnational politics but few attempts to explain differences in the pattern of decentralization across countries. Fiscal decentralization must be understood as a political barg…
Fiscal Decentralization
Theories of fiscal federalism explain the efficiency and other economic gains from decentralization but do not explain its extent and nature in practice. The authors develop a political theory of decentralization that focuses on the lines of political accountability between politicians at different levels of government. The more accountable central-level politicians—presidents and legislators—are to subnational politicians, the greater the extent…
The Cafta Conflict and Costa Rica's Democracy
The process of ratifying CAFTA in Costa Rica required traversing a contentious political landscape involving intense legislative battles, massive public demonstrations, and finally a national referendum in October 2007. By employing the mechanism of direct democracy to ratify a free trade agreement, Costa Rica made history. But how did this experiment with direct participation affect Costa Rica's democracy? This article evaluates what the referen…
Political science (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Decentralization (3 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (3 works) · Latin Americans (3 works) · Local Government Finance and Decentralization (3 works) · Political economy (3 works)