Democracy and Social Spending in Latin America

Globalization, Democracy, and Social Spending in Latin America, 1980-1997

Determinants of Social Spending in Latin America

Determinants of Social Spending in Latin America and the Caribbean Evelyne Huber, Thomas Mustillo, and John D. Stephens University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill We examine the determinants of social expenditure in an unbalanced pooled time series analysis for 22 Latin American and Caribbean countries for the period 1970 to 2000. The data are from a new data set assembled by the co-authors and ...

The Role of NGOs in Promoting Educational Innovation: A Case Study in Latin America

An assessment of the education systems of the countries of Latin America needs to address three central questions: i Is education contributing to increasing the productivity of the labour force in an increasingly global economy? 2 Is it contributing to reducing absolute poverty and to improve equity? 3 Is it contributing to consolidating democratic institutions? Though conditions vary between s...

ICT's for Democracy in Latin America?

Should Latin American governments concentrate their efforts in improving efficiency, transparency and accountability or should they also aim to increase the participation of citizens in decision-making? Is there a risk of reinforcing inequality through the promotion of ICT's for democracy in countries with a considerable digital divide? Is there a risk of reinforcing populism, clientelism and c...

Micro-social and Contextual Sources of Democratic Attitudes in Latin America

Many Latin American countries democratized between 1975 and 2000, and research has confirmed that contemporary Latin Americans hold democratic political attitudes. Using AmericasBarometer surveys of 18 countries from 2008, we examine the commitment of Latin Americans to three democratic attitudes – preference for democracy over other forms of government, support for general participation rights...