A Middle-Quality Institutional Trap: Democracy and State Capacity in Latin America

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Sebastián L. Mazzuca Gerardo L. Munck

A Middle-Quality Institutional Trap

Democracy and State Capacity in Latin America

Sebastián L. Mazzuca, Gerardo L. Munck

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Cambridge University Press
11 February 2021

Society & culture: general; Regional government

Series: Elements in Politics and Society in Latin America

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Latin America is currently caught in a middle-quality institutional trap, combining flawed democracies and low-to-medium capacity States. Yet, contrary to conventional wisdom, the sequence of development - Latin America has democratized before building capable States - does not explain the region's quandary. States can make democracy, but so too can democracy make States. Thus, the starting point of political developments is less important than whether the State-democracy relationship is a virtuous cycle, triggering causal mechanisms that reinforce each other. However, the State-democracy interaction generates a virtuous cycle only under certain macroconditions. In Latin America, the State-democracy interaction has not generated a virtuous cycle: problems regarding the State prevent full democratization and problems of democracy prevent the development of state capacity. Moreover, multiple macroconditions provide a foundation for this distinctive pattern of State-democracy interaction. The suboptimal political equilibrium in contemporary Latin America is a robust one.

By: Sebastián L. Mazzuca, Gerardo L. Munck
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 6mm
Weight: 161g
ISBN: 9781108813990
ISBN 10: 1108813992
Series: Elements in Politics and Society in Latin America
Pages: 75
Publication Date: 11 February 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active