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  • LAP volume 60 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    Latin American Politics and Society / Volume 60 / Issue 1 / February 2018
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    15 January 2018, pp. b1-b4
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  • Getting Along or Going Alone: Understanding Collaboration Between Local Governments and NGOs in Bolivia

  • Jami Nelson-Nuñez, Kate Cartwright
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    Latin American Politics and Society / Volume 60 / Issue 1 / February 2018
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    15 January 2018, pp. 76-101

  • What explains mayors’ collaboration with nongovernmental organizations in delivering public goods and services? While some successful collaborations are established, in other cases the call for NGOs to coordinate with governments goes unheeded. Collaboration minimizes the duplication of effort, maximizes information sharing, and builds capacity. Given the scholarly consensus on the importance of collaboration, we know little about it at local levels, where it may matter most. This article focuses on Bolivia, a country with deep decentralization reforms and an active NGO sector. It utilizes survey data on mayors from 2007 to provide insight into the variation in NGO–local government collaboration across a country. It argues that political context is important: mayoral turnover, greater community group engagement, and more municipal resources deter collaboration. The findings illustrate the strategic interplay between state and nonstate actors and explain the uneven geographies of partnerships in governance.

  • External Appeal, Internal Dominance: How Party Leaders Contribute to Successful Party Building

  • Brandon Van Dyck
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    Latin American Politics and Society / Volume 60 / Issue 1 / February 2018
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    15 January 2018, pp. 1-26

  • Many successful political parties depend for their initial popularity and cohesion, and even for their long-term brand strength, on a leader. Nevertheless, literature on successful party building downplays the role of leaders. Thus, the question, what type of leader is good for party building?, remains undertheorized. This article presents and provides initial evidence for a leadership-centered theory of successful party building. It argues that externally appealing, internally dominant leaders facilitate party building by lifting new parties to electoral prominence and helping to prevent debilitating schisms. The article provides evidence for this argument through a most similar cases comparison of three new left parties in Latin America: two that took root (Brazil’s Workers’ Party, Mexico’s Party of the Democratic Revolution), and one that collapsed (Peru’s United Left).

  • LAP volume 60 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    Latin American Politics and Society / Volume 60 / Issue 1 / February 2018
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    15 January 2018, pp. f1-f4
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