Politics Beyond the Capital: The Design of Subnational Institutions in South America

Kent Eaton

Published by Stanford University Press 2004

Politics Beyond the Capital

The Design of Subnational Institutions in South America

Kent Eaton

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804767408

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About this book

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.

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Kent Eaton is Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
PART ONE. Introduction
CHAPTER 1. Explaining Decentralization and Re-centralization Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
CHAPTER 2. Definitions, Cases, and Patterns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
PART TWO. Nineteenth-Century Origins, Twentieth-Century Trajectories
CHAPTER 3. Decentralization from Below ARGENTINA BEFORE 1966, BRAZIL BEFORE 1964 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
CHAPTER 4. Decentralization from Above CHILE AND URUGUAY BEFORE 1973 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
PART THREE. Bureaucratic Authoritarianism Beyond the Capital
CHAPTER 5. Subnational Reforms by Military Governments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
PART FOUR. Subnational Institutions in the Third Wave of Democracy
CHAPTER 6. The Reemergence of the Governors in Argentina and Brazil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
CHAPTER 7. National Engineering of Subnational Institutions in Chile and Uruguay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
PART FIVE. Conclusion
CHAPTER 8. Comparing Waves and Approaches Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257

Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 288

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Published: July 22, 2004
ISBN: 9780804767408