A Middle-Quality Institutional Trap: Democracy and State Capacity in Latin Amer…
A Middle-Quality Institutional Trap: Democracy and State Capacity in Latin AmericaAuthor(s): Sebastin L. Mazzuca, Gerardo L. Munck\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108813990, 978-1108813990\nSynopsis\nLatin America is currently caught in a middle-quality institutional trap, combining flawed democracies and low-to-medium capacity States. Yet, contrary to conventional wisdom, the sequence of development - Latin America has democratized before building capable States - does not explain the region's quandary. States can make democracy, but so too can democracy make States. Thus, the starting point of political developments is less important than whether the State-democracy relationship is a virtuous cycle, triggering causal mechanisms that reinforce each other. However, the State-democracy interaction generates a virtuous cycle only under certain macroconditions. In Latin America, the State-democr.
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