Author: Maria Victoria Murillo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521884314
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Shows that electoral competition and partisan government helped balance the conflicting demands of voters' interests with the financial pressures generated by capital scarcity.
Political Competition, Partisanship, and Policy Making in Latin American Public Utilities
Author: Maria Victoria Murillo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521884314
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Shows that electoral competition and partisan government helped balance the conflicting demands of voters' interests with the financial pressures generated by capital scarcity.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521884314
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Shows that electoral competition and partisan government helped balance the conflicting demands of voters' interests with the financial pressures generated by capital scarcity.
Political Competition, Partisanship, and Policy Making in Latin American Public Utilities
Author: Maria Victoria Murillo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139483463
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
This book studies policymaking in the Latin American electricity and telecommunication sectors. Murillo's analysis of the Latin American electricity and telecommunications sectors shows that different degrees of electoral competition and the partisan composition of the government were crucial in resolving policymakers' tension between the interests of voters and the economic incentives generated by international financial markets and private corporations in the context of capital scarcity. Electoral competition by credible challengers dissuaded politicians from adopting policies deemed necessary to attract capital inflows. When electoral competition was low, financial pressures prevailed, but the partisan orientation of reformers shaped the regulatory design of market-friendly reforms. In the post-reform period, moreover, electoral competition and policymakers' partisanship shaped regulatory redistribution between residential consumers, large users, and privatized providers.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139483463
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
This book studies policymaking in the Latin American electricity and telecommunication sectors. Murillo's analysis of the Latin American electricity and telecommunications sectors shows that different degrees of electoral competition and the partisan composition of the government were crucial in resolving policymakers' tension between the interests of voters and the economic incentives generated by international financial markets and private corporations in the context of capital scarcity. Electoral competition by credible challengers dissuaded politicians from adopting policies deemed necessary to attract capital inflows. When electoral competition was low, financial pressures prevailed, but the partisan orientation of reformers shaped the regulatory design of market-friendly reforms. In the post-reform period, moreover, electoral competition and policymakers' partisanship shaped regulatory redistribution between residential consumers, large users, and privatized providers.
Political Competition, Partisanship, and Policymaking in Latin American Public Utilities
Author: Maria Victoria Murillo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780511651922
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Shows that electoral competition and partisan government helped balance the conflicting demands of voters' interests with the financial pressures generated by capital scarcity.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780511651922
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Shows that electoral competition and partisan government helped balance the conflicting demands of voters' interests with the financial pressures generated by capital scarcity.
Non-Policy Politics
Author: Ernesto Calvo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108497004
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Explores how non-policy resources, including administrative competence, patronage, and activists' networks, shape both electoral results and which voters get what.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108497004
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Explores how non-policy resources, including administrative competence, patronage, and activists' networks, shape both electoral results and which voters get what.
Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforms in Latin America
Author: Maria Victoria Murillo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521785556
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Why labor unions resisted and submitted during the economic crises of the 1990s.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521785556
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Why labor unions resisted and submitted during the economic crises of the 1990s.
Waves of War
Author: Andreas Wimmer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107025559
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
A new perspective on how the nation-state emerged and proliferated across the globe, accompanied by a wave of wars. Andreas Wimmer explores these historical developments using social science techniques of analysis and datasets that cover the entire modern world.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107025559
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
A new perspective on how the nation-state emerged and proliferated across the globe, accompanied by a wave of wars. Andreas Wimmer explores these historical developments using social science techniques of analysis and datasets that cover the entire modern world.
Rivalry and Revenge
Author: Laia Balcells
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108210554
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
What explains violence against civilians in civil wars? Why do groups kill civilians in areas where they have full military control and their rivals have no military presence? This innovative book connects pre-war politics to patterns of violence during civil war. It argues that both local political rivalry and local revenge account for violence against civilians. Armed groups perpetrate direct violence jointly with local civilians, who collaborate when violence can help them gain or consolidate local political control. As civil war continues, revenge motives also come into play, leading to spirals of violence at a local level. In an important contribution to the study of the Spanish Civil War, Balcells combines statistical analyses with ethnographic and qualitative research to provide new insights to scholars and academic researchers with an interest in civil war, politics and conflict processes. Rivalry and Revenge is theoretically and empirically rich, and it offers a theory and method generalizable to a wide set of cases.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108210554
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
What explains violence against civilians in civil wars? Why do groups kill civilians in areas where they have full military control and their rivals have no military presence? This innovative book connects pre-war politics to patterns of violence during civil war. It argues that both local political rivalry and local revenge account for violence against civilians. Armed groups perpetrate direct violence jointly with local civilians, who collaborate when violence can help them gain or consolidate local political control. As civil war continues, revenge motives also come into play, leading to spirals of violence at a local level. In an important contribution to the study of the Spanish Civil War, Balcells combines statistical analyses with ethnographic and qualitative research to provide new insights to scholars and academic researchers with an interest in civil war, politics and conflict processes. Rivalry and Revenge is theoretically and empirically rich, and it offers a theory and method generalizable to a wide set of cases.
Information for Autocrats
Author: Melanie Manion
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107049113
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This book studies representation in Chinese local congresses, drawing on qualitative fieldwork and quantitative surveys of congressmen and women.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107049113
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This book studies representation in Chinese local congresses, drawing on qualitative fieldwork and quantitative surveys of congressmen and women.
Alien Rule
Author: Michael Hechter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107042542
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This book argues that alien rule can become legitimate to the degree that it provides governance that is both effective and fair. Governance is effective to the degree that citizens have access to an expanding economy and an ample supply of culturally appropriate collective goods. Governance is fair to the degree that rulers act according to the strictures of procedural justice. These twin conditions help account for the legitimation of alien rulers in organizations of markedly different scale. The book applies these principles to the legitimation of alien rulers in states (the Republic of Genoa, nineteenth- and twentieth-century China, and modern Iraq), colonies (Taiwan and Korea under Japanese rule), and occupation regimes, as well as in less encompassing organizations such as universities (academic receivership), corporations (mergers and acquisitions), and stepfamilies. Finally, it speculates about the possibility of an international market in governance services.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107042542
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This book argues that alien rule can become legitimate to the degree that it provides governance that is both effective and fair. Governance is effective to the degree that citizens have access to an expanding economy and an ample supply of culturally appropriate collective goods. Governance is fair to the degree that rulers act according to the strictures of procedural justice. These twin conditions help account for the legitimation of alien rulers in organizations of markedly different scale. The book applies these principles to the legitimation of alien rulers in states (the Republic of Genoa, nineteenth- and twentieth-century China, and modern Iraq), colonies (Taiwan and Korea under Japanese rule), and occupation regimes, as well as in less encompassing organizations such as universities (academic receivership), corporations (mergers and acquisitions), and stepfamilies. Finally, it speculates about the possibility of an international market in governance services.
Elite Parties, Poor Voters
Author: Tariq Thachil
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 131616523X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Why do poor people often vote against their material interests? This puzzle has been famously studied within wealthy Western democracies, yet the fact that the poor voter paradox also routinely manifests within poor countries has remained unexplored. This book studies how this paradox emerged in India, the world's largest democracy. Tariq Thachil shows how arguments from studies of wealthy democracies (such as moral values voting) and the global south (such as patronage or ethnic appeals) cannot explain why poor voters in poor countries support parties that represent elite policy interests. He instead draws on extensive survey data and fieldwork to document a novel strategy through which elite parties can recruit the poor, while retaining the rich. He shows how these parties can win over disadvantaged voters by privately providing them with basic social services via grassroots affiliates. Such outsourcing permits the party itself to continue to represent the policy interests of their privileged base.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 131616523X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Why do poor people often vote against their material interests? This puzzle has been famously studied within wealthy Western democracies, yet the fact that the poor voter paradox also routinely manifests within poor countries has remained unexplored. This book studies how this paradox emerged in India, the world's largest democracy. Tariq Thachil shows how arguments from studies of wealthy democracies (such as moral values voting) and the global south (such as patronage or ethnic appeals) cannot explain why poor voters in poor countries support parties that represent elite policy interests. He instead draws on extensive survey data and fieldwork to document a novel strategy through which elite parties can recruit the poor, while retaining the rich. He shows how these parties can win over disadvantaged voters by privately providing them with basic social services via grassroots affiliates. Such outsourcing permits the party itself to continue to represent the policy interests of their privileged base.