...Raúl Aldaz Peña; Daniel Baquero-Mendez The capacity of the state in Latin America is limited, preventing the implementation of policies to address problems that have been historically necessary (e.g., under-nutrition, poverty, or security). While existing explanations propose that Latin American...

...Cameron G. Thies This paper evaluates the current state of the literature on the sources of state-building in Latin America. The literature has grown to include a number of explanations rooted in the historical legacies of domestic political economy processes or external threat, most of which...

... coalition. Western Europe and some of its offshoots had a very unique path. The emergence of commerce, industrialization, urbanization, new ideas, along with (some times long-lasting) existing institutions shaped their democratizing trajectory. However, societies in Africa, Asia or Latin America went...

... partisanship path-dependence race Latin America Prior to the back-to-back victories of Álvaro Uribe in Colombia’s 2002 and 2006 presidential elections, the Liberal and Conservative parties formed the axis of one of the region’s most stable party systems. The stability of Colombia’s two-party system...