Eliza J Willis
Biographic Data
| ID | 831664 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eliza J Willis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eliza J |
| FAMILY NAME | Willis |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIS E J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Grinnell College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
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…
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…
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 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 (4 works) · Politics (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Democracy (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (2 works) · International Development and Aid (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Legislature (2 works)