TY - BOOK ID - 85527240 TI - The politics of institutional weakness in Latin America AU - Brinks, Daniel M. AU - Levitsky, Steven AU - Murillo, María Victoria PY - 2020 SN - 1108776604 110880828X 1108803172 1108489338 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Political culture KW - Government accountability KW - Administrative agencies KW - Agencies, Administrative KW - Executive agencies KW - Government agencies KW - Regulatory agencies KW - Administrative law KW - Public administration KW - Accountability in government KW - Responsibility KW - Law and legislation KW - Latin America KW - Politics and government KW - Asociación Latinoamericana de Libre Comercio countries KW - Neotropical region KW - Neotropics KW - New World tropics KW - Spanish America UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85527240 AB - Analysts and policymakers often decry the failure of institutions to accomplish their stated purpose. Bringing together leading scholars of Latin American politics, this volume helps us understand why. The volume offers a conceptual and theoretical framework for studying weak institutions. It introduces different dimensions of institutional weakness and explores the origins and consequences of that weakness. Drawing on recent research on constitutional and electoral reform, executive-legislative relations, property rights, environmental and labor regulation, indigenous rights, squatters and street vendors, and anti-domestic violence laws in Latin America, the volume's chapters show us that politicians often design institutions that they cannot or do not want to enforce or comply with. Challenging existing theories of institutional design, the volume helps us understand the logic that drives the creation of weak institutions, as well as the conditions under which they may be transformed into institutions that matter. ER -