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The AmericasBarometer l The Political Culture of Democracy in the Americas, 2012: Towards Equality of Opportunity
Civil Society, Democracy, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, Academic/Think Tank, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThis publication is the preliminary version of the AmericasBarometer regional, comparative report 2012. This round, fundamental social, political, and ethical problem in the Americas are tackled: the tremendous gaps in opportunities experienced and resources available to the region’s citizens. While these disparities are certainly visible in differences in economic development across...
Una nueva generación de sistemas de evaluación de desempeño en América Central. Panoramas de un recorrido reciente
Article / Working Paper, Latin America and the Carribean, Public Administration, Academic/Think TankExamina las característica de una nueva generacíon de sistema de evaluacíon de de desempeño en América Central. Se procura identificar si los mismos han tomado elementos de un enfoque centrado en el desarrollo de las personas. El recorrido realizado es importante pero hay pendientes y desafíos con el propósito de lograr un sistema efectivamente centrado en el aprendizaje organizacional, el...
Measuring the Progressive Realization of Economic and Social Human Rights in Brazil: A Disaggregated Economic and Social Rights Fulfillment Indexi
Human Rights, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, Academic/Think TankThis paper summarizes findings and conclusions from our application of the Economic and Social Rights Fulfillment Index developed by Fukuda-Parr, Lawson-Remer and Randolph (2009) to the states of Brazil. The key features of this methodology in assessing economic and human rights fulfillment is the focus on state obligations rather than only on human outcomes, and reference to both level of...
Blurring the Boundaries - Citizen Action Across States and Societies
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Democracy, Latin America and the Carribean, Report, Academic/Think Tank, DonorBlurring the Boundaries - Citizen Action Across States and Societies provides a summary of nearly a decade of research on citizen engagement done by the Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability (the Citizenship DRC). The brief note Blurring the Boundaries - Citizen Action Across States and Societies has been produced by the Development Research Centre on...
Cultura política de la democracia en Ecuador, 2010: Consolidación democrática en las Américas en tiempos difíciles
Democracy, Latin America and the Carribean, Parliament, Political Parties, Report, Academic/Think TankEste estudio representa la contribución más reciente de la serie de encuestas del Barómetro de las Américas, una de las diversas actividades del Proyecto de Opinión Pública de América Latina (LAPOP), las cuales se han diversificado y ampliado en años recientes. El estudio de 2010 es el más extenso realizado hasta el momento,...
Sanctions, Benefits, and Rights: Three Faces of Accountability
Article / Working Paper, Latin America and the Carribean, Local Governance and Decentralization, Academic/Think TankAs countries throughout the world democratise and decentralise, citizen participation in public life should increase. It is said citizens in a decentralised and democratic system of government are governed better because they can punish electorally those who do not deliver on promises. This paper suggests that local government 'by the people' is enhanced when citizens have access...
Governing the metropolis: principles and cases
Book, Latin America and the Carribean, Local Governance and Decentralization, Academic/Think Tank, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThis book is based on a study that analysed recent advances in research and practice on the management of metropolitan areas in Latin America. It discusses options to improve democratic governance of the territories under the jurisdiction of diverse sub-national governments and identifies different ways to tackle the fiscal problems they face. It brings out the...
The predatory or virtuous choices governors make: political institutions and economic performance
Article / Working Paper, Democracy, Latin America and the Carribean, Political Parties, Academic/Think TankThis paper explores the idea that political institutions are important determinants of the policies implemented in states. The authors propose a model of the policymaking process and then test its implications with state-level data for the period 1999 to 2006 in Brazil. The focus of the empirical tests is on the impact of political competition and checks and...
A methodology for democratic conflict prevention and early warning in Latin America
Article / Working Paper, Conflict, Democracy, Latin America and the Carribean, Academic/Think TankThis paper presents a seven-step methodology designed to analyse violent conflict, assess democratic governance and understand the relationships between the two. It has been developed principally as a tool of analysis to study the nature and quality of democracy in relation to current and future conflicts in a specific world region: Latin America. The methodology identifies...
Assessing the quality of democracy: freedom, competitiveness and participation in eighteen Latin American countries
Article / Working Paper, Democracy, Latin America and the Carribean, Academic/Think TankThis article explores the problem of conceptualising and measuring the quality of democracy in Latin America. The study constructs summary measures of the quality of democracy in several ways, and shows that the ranking of the cases is highly consistent, no matter the procedure applied. The first part of the article discusses the use of the concept and the need for an operational...