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The Politics of Decentralization in Latin America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

Eliza Willis ,
Christopher da C. B. Garman  and
Stephan Haggard
Eliza Willis
Affiliation:
Grinnell College
Christopher da C. B. Garman
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
Stephan Haggard
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
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One of the most significant developments in Latin American politics and political economy in the last two decades has been the increasing decentralization of government. This development has generated a substantial literature on the pros and cons of decentralization and on subnational politics but few attempts to explain differences in the pattern of decentralization across countries. Fiscal decentralization must be understood as a political bargain involving presidents, legislators, and subnational politicians, each having somewhat conflicting preferences. How these bargains are struck will depend heavily on the lines of accountability within political parties. In systems with centralized political parties, the central government has exercised greater control over resources and uses than in countries with decentralized parties, in which subnational politicians exercise strong influence over legislators. The article explores this hypothesis through a comparative analysis of decentralization in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, and Mexico.

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Research Article
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , 1999 , pp. 7 - 56
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Copyright © 1999 by the University of Texas Press

Footnotes

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An earlier version of this article was presented to the American Political Science Association, 29 Aug.–1 Sept. 1996, in San Francisco. We are grateful to Jim Alt, Leslie Elliott Armijo, Barry Ames, Alberto Díaz Cayeros, Jorge Domínguez, Emily Edmonds, Jeffrey Frieden, Barbara Geddes, Robert Kaufman, Lisa Martin, Kathleen O'Neill, Mark Osiel, Philip Oxhorn, David Samuels, and Matthew Shugart as well as the anonymous LARR reviewers for their comments on previous drafts.

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