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During the 1990s Argentina was the only country in Latin America to combine radical economic reform and full democracy. In 2001, however, the country fell into a deep political and economic crisis and was widely seen as a basket case. This book explores both developments, examining the links between the (real and apparent) successes of the 1990s and the 2001 collapse. Specific topics include economic policymaking and reform, executive-legislative relations, the judiciary, federalism, political parties and the party system, and new patterns of social protest.
Beyond its empirical analysis, the book contributes to several theoretical debates in comparative politics. Contemporary studies of political institutions focus almost exclusively on institutional design, neglecting issues of enforcement and stability. Yet a major problem in much of Latin America is that institutions of diverse types have often failed to take root.
Besides examining the effects of institutional weakness, the book also uses the Argentine case to shed light on four other areas of current debate: tensions between radical economic reform and democracy; political parties and contemporary crises of representation; links between subnational and national politics; and the transformation of state-society relations in the post-corporatist era.
Besides the editors, the contributors are Javier Auyero, Ernesto Calvo, Kent Eaton, Sebastián Etchemendy, Gretchen Helmke, Wonjae Hwang, Mark Jones, Enrique Peruzzotti, Pablo T. Spiller, Mariano Tommasi, and Juan Carlos Torre.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Acronyms
Introduction
Steven Levitsky and María Victoria Murillo
PART I: INSTITUTIONS, ACTORS, AND THE POLITICS OF ECONOMIC REFORM
1. Building Castles in the Sand?
The Politics of Institutional Weakness in Argentina
Steven Levitsky and María Victoria Murillo
2. The Institutional Foundations of Public Policy: A
Transaction Cost Approach and Its Application to Argentina
Pablo T. Spiller and Mariano Tommasi
3. Old Actors in New Markets: Transforming the
Populist/Industrial Coalition in Argentina, 1989-2001
Sebastián Etchemendy
4. Menem and the Governors: Intergovernmental
Relations in the 1990s
Kent Eaton
PART II: RETHINKING DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS
5. Provincial Party Bosses: Keystone of the Argentine Congress
Mark P. Jones and Wonjae Hwang
6. Enduring Uncertainty: Court-Executive Relations in Argentina During the 1990s and Beyond
Gretchen Helmke
PART III: CHANGE AND CONTINUITY IN THE ARGENTINE PARTY SYSTEM
7. Citizens Versus Political Class: The Crisis of Partisan Representation
Juan Carlos Torre
8. Crisis and Renovation: Institutional Weakness and the Transformation of Argentine Peronism, 1983-2003
Steven Levitsky
9. The New Iron Law of Argentine Politics? Partisanship,Clientelism, and Governability in Contemporary Argentina
Ernesto Calvo and María Victoria Murillo
PART IV: EMERGING PATTERNS OF CIVIC ORGANIZATION AND PROTEST
10. Demanding Accountable Government: Citizens, Politicians,and the Perils of Representative Democracy in Argentina
Enrique Peruzzotti
11. Protest and Politics in Contemporary Argentina
Javier Auyero
Conclusion: Theorizing About Weak Institutions: Lessons From the Argentine Case
Steven Levitsky and María Victoria Murillo
References
Contributors
Index
