Politics Beyond the Capital

The Design of Subnational Institutions in South America

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ID19942015
AuthorsK Eaton (0000-0002-7105-3420, corresponding author)
Year2004
Pages288
Publication date2004-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenuePolitics Beyond the Capital (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherStanford University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1515/9780804767408
OpenAlexW4234526525
Open LibraryOL51655858M
ISBN9780804767408
LanguageEN
Citations received56

A recent wave of decentralization in Latin America has increased the prominence of politicians at the subnational level. Politics Beyond the Capital is the first book to place this trend in comparative historical perspective, examining past episodes of decentralization alongside contemporary ones to determine whether consistent causal factors are at play. At the center of the book is the rigorous testing of two key hypotheses that attribute decentralization to liberalizing changes in political regime type and economic development strategy. The book focuses on the four Latin American countries where politicians have most extensively engaged in the redesign of subnational institutions: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay. By reframing the "politics of decentralization" as the "politics of designing subnational institutions," the book moves beyond the policy orientation of much of the current literature, and broadens the debate by analyzing not just decentralization but re-centralization as well

Ancient history · Capital (architecture) · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · History · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Political Economy and Marxism · Decentralization in government · Subnational governments

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