Latin America

Eight Lessons for Governance

Bibliographic Data

ID6288034
AuthorsScott Mainwaring (0000-0003-2729-8049), Timothy R Scully
Year2008
Volume19
Issue3
Pages113-127
Publication date2008-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of democracy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1045-5736 • E-ISSN: 1086-3214
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jod.0.0001
OpenAlexW2030928955
LanguageEN
Citations received31
References cited9

This article suggests eight lessons regarding democratic governance during the third wave of democratization in Latin America. First, creating effective democratic governance has proven far more difficult than analysts anticipated in the early 1990s. Second, the outcomes in democratic governance in contemporary Latin America have varied widely. Third, effective states are important for successful democratic governance. Fourth, institutionalized party systems facilitate effective democratic governance. Fifth, no set of formal institutions is clearly superior to others for promoting successful democratic governance. Sixth, although historical legacies shape the prospects for the subsequent success of democratic governance, countries have opportunities to break from the past and to establish new regime dynamics. Seventh, in the post-1990 period in Latin America, positive and negative outcomes have tended to go together. Finally, effective democratic governance does not always satisfy popular aspirations

Corporate governance · Democracy · Democratic governance · Democratization · Development economics · Economics · Good governance · Latin Americans · Management · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Global History, Politics, and Ideology · International Development and Aid · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Public Administration

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