LEADER 04297nam 22006614a 450 001 9910826653803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8018-8926-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000482194 035 $a(EBL)3318293 035 $a(OCoLC)923193261 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000178930 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11181995 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000178930 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10230117 035 $a(PQKB)10171619 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3318293 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3318293 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10188494 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000482194 100 $a20051107d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aInformal institutions and democracy $elessons from Latin America /$fedited by Gretchen Helmke, Steven Levitsky 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBaltimore $cJohns Hopkins University Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 351 pages) $cillustrations 300 $a"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. 311 0 $a0-8018-8352-0 311 0 $a0-8018-8351-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [313]-335) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 Honduras 327 $a6 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 Institution 327 $a12 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; Index 330 $aThe 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. 517 1 $aInformal institutions & democracy 606 $aPolitical culture$zLatin America$vCongresses 606 $aDemocratization$zLatin America$vCongresses 606 $aDemocracy$zLatin America$vCongresses 606 $aPolitics, Practical$zLatin America$vCongresses 607 $aLatin America$xPolitics and government$y1980-$vCongresses 615 0$aPolitical culture 615 0$aDemocratization 615 0$aDemocracy 615 0$aPolitics, Practical 676 $a306.2098 701 $aHelmke$b Gretchen$f1967-$01663973 701 $aLevitsky$b Steven$0765493 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826653803321 996 $aInformal institutions and democracy$94021710 997 $aUNINA