04297nam 22006614a 450 991082665380332120200520144314.00-8018-8926-X(CKB)1000000000482194(EBL)3318293(OCoLC)923193261(SSID)ssj0000178930(PQKBManifestationID)11181995(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000178930(PQKBWorkID)10230117(PQKB)10171619(MiAaPQ)EBC3318293(Au-PeEL)EBL3318293(CaPaEBR)ebr10188494(EXLCZ)99100000000048219420051107d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierInformal institutions and democracy lessons from Latin America /edited by Gretchen Helmke, Steven Levitsky1st ed.Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Pressc20061 online resource (viii, 351 pages) illustrations"The volume emerged out of two conferences on informal institutions. The first, entitled 'Informal Institutions and Politics in the Developing World, ' was held at Harvard University in April 2002 ... The second conference, entitled 'Informal Institutions and Politics in Latin America: Understanding the Rules of the Game, ' was held at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, in April 2003"--Pref.0-8018-8352-0 0-8018-8351-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-335) and index.Contents; Preface; Introduction; PART I: THE INFORMAL POLITICS OF EXECUTIVE-LEGISLATIVE RELATIONS; 1 Accommodating Informal Institutions and Chilean Democracy; 2 How Informal Electoral Institutions Shape the Brazilian Legislative Arena; 3 Crafting Legislative Ghost Coalitions in Ecuador: Informal Institutions and Economic Reform in an Unlikely Case; PART II: INFORMAL INSTITUTIONS AND ELECTORAL POLITICS; 4 Informal Institutions When Formal Contracting Is Prohibited: Campaign Finance in Brazil; 5 The Difficult Road from Caudillismo to Democracy: The Impact of Clientelism in Honduras6 Do Informal Rules Make Democracy Work? Accounting for Accountability in Argentina; PART III: INFORMAL INSTITUTIONS AND PARTY POLITICS; 7 The Birth and Transformation of the Dedazo in Mexico; 8 Election Insurance and Coalition Survival: Formal and Informal Institutions in Chile; 9 Informal Institutions and Party Organization in Latin America; PART IV: INFORMAL JUDICIAL INSTITUTIONS AND THE RULE OF LAW; 10 The Rule of (Non)Law: Prosecuting Police Killings in Brazil and Argentina; 11 Mexico's Postelectoral Concertacesiones: The Rise and Demise of a Substitutive Informal Institution12 Dispensing Justice at the Margins of Formality: The Informal Rule of Law in Latin America; Conclusion; Afterword: On Informal Institutions, Once Again; Notes; References; List of Contributors; IndexThe editors present this analysis within a fourfold conceptual framework: complementary institutions, which fill gaps in formal rules or enhance their efficacy; accommodative informal institutions, which blunt the effects of dysfunctional formal institutions; competing informal institutions, which directly subvert the formal rules; and substitutive informal institutions, which replace ineffective formal institutions.Informal institutions & democracyPolitical cultureLatin AmericaCongressesDemocratizationLatin AmericaCongressesDemocracyLatin AmericaCongressesPolitics, PracticalLatin AmericaCongressesLatin AmericaPolitics and government1980-CongressesPolitical cultureDemocratizationDemocracyPolitics, Practical306.2098Helmke Gretchen1967-1663973Levitsky Steven765493MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826653803321Informal institutions and democracy4021710UNINA