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17184 results in Latin American government, politics and policy

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  • 9 - Back to Policy Offers

  • Ernesto Calvo, University of Maryland, College Park, Maria Victoria Murillo, Columbia University, New York
  • Book:
    Non-Policy Politics
    Published online:
    25 January 2019
    Print publication:
    14 February 2019, pp 180-213

  • Summary

    Since democratization, political parties in Argentina and Chile have pursued different policy strategies to win the support of voters, with party switching characterizing the former and policy stability in the latter. Our framework proposes that such policy differences are closely related to the constraints and opportunities that are provided by non-policy endowments. Here, we describe the effect of non-policy endowments on the parties’ ability to switch their prior policy positions using our model to define the optimal policy offer that parties should make given their non-policy advantages or disadvantages as well as the presence of non-policy heterogeneity among voters’ preferences. In so doing, we describe biases in policy responsiveness derived from the different sensitivity of richer or poorer voters to policy and non-policy offers by parties in either country. We end by discussing whether non-policy incentives shape the observable strategies of politicians in Argentina and Chile and how they may differ from their optimal choices, as well as the implications of our analysis for the subsequent political evolution of parties in both countries.

  • Lynching and the Politics of State Formation in Post-Revolutionary Puebla (1930s–50s)

  • Gema Kloppe-Santamaría
  • Journal:
    Journal of Latin American Studies / Volume 51 / Issue 3 / August 2019
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    13 February 2019, pp. 499-521
    Print publication:
    August 2019

  • A number of scholars have analysed lynching in Latin America as a response to the recent upsurge in insecurity and crime in the region. This article turns our attention to historical and deeper socio-political undercurrents behind this practice. Drawing on several cases of lynching that took place in post-revolutionary Puebla, the article argues that, rather than signalling state absence, the occurrence of lynching expressed communities’ reactions towards a state presence that was perceived as intrusive and illegitimate. It furthermore shows that lynchings emulated the brutality and visibility of extralegal forms of violence perpetrated by public officials at the local level.

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