Andrés Mejía Acosta

Informal Coalitions and Policymaking in Latin America

Ecuador in Comparative Perspective

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explains how presidents achieve market-oriented reforms in a contentious political environment. Using an impressive amount of quantitative and qualitative empirical evidence, most of which is reported for the first time, Mej a Acosta argues that presidents in Ecuador adopted significant reforms by crafting informal yet functional coalitions with opposition parties in congress. This pattern of success is particularly relevant in a country known for its chronic political fragmentation and deep regional and ethnic divisions. Paradoxically, the adoption of constitutional reforms to promote governance undermined the success of informal coalitions and directly contributed to greater regime instability after 1996. Mej a Acosta's work offers a compelling analysis of how formal and informal political institutions contribute to policy change. His far-reaching conclusions will capture the attention of political scientists and scholars of Latin America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780415993548
• ISBN-10: 0415993547
• Artikelnr.: 23605169

Autorenporträt

Andrés Mejía Acosta is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Pushing Reforms through the Eye of a Needle 2. A Proposed Model for
Legislative Cooperation 3. Presidential Success in a Fragmented Legislature
4. Party Brokers and Voting Unity in the Ecuadorian Congress 5. Voting at
the Margins: Pivotal Players and Coalition Making 6. Ghost Coalitions in
the Making of Economic Reforms 7. Ghost Coalitions, Institutional Change
and Democratic Accountability