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Why is structural reform stangnating in Mexico?: policy reform episodes from Salinas to Fox
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2006)
This paper evaluates several hypotheses about why political systems implement structural reforms. It examines Mexico, a middle income developing country with one of the fifteenth largest economies in the world. This paper ...
Constitucional design and democratic performance in Latin America
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2006)
This paper examines the impact of two models of constitutional design on Latin American politics. It suggests that the debate about the advantages and disadvantages of presidentialism needs to move beyond a discussion of ...
Policymaking, parties and institutions in democratic Costa Rica
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2006)
This paper identifies the political and institutional conditions that encourage parties to construct long-term agreements for effective public policymaking. It examines Costa Rica, a country that gradually departed, by the ...
Structural reform, democratic governance, and institutional design in Latin America
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2006)
This essay reviews four important books about the origins and consequences of market-based reforms during the past two decades in Latin America. It suggests that we need to accelerate the integration of what remain four ...