Democratic Politics in Latin America: Contributions from an Institutionalist Perspective
Keywords:
democracy, institutionalism, the quality of democracy, Latin AmericaAbstract
This article analyzes the contributions of the institutionalist literature to the understandingof democratic politics in Latin America. It first considers the debate about the institutionalcauses of gridlock and draws attention to key strengths of this literature. Thereafter,the article addresses the question of the quality of democracy, placing emphasis on thecontributions of institutionalists to understand the relationship between citizens, policymakers and policy administrators in terms of the principal-agent model. In addition, it addressessome challenges in the analysis of the quality of democracy linked with the relationshipbetween the preferences of politicians and state capacity, and the level of democraticnessof the political regime.
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