This book takes a powerful new approach to a question central to comparative politics and economics: Why do some leaders of fragile democracies attain political

This book explores the pivotal role of think tanks in the democratization and economic reform movements by evaluating their overall effect on the transformation

This book develops a new political-institutional explanation of South America's 'two lefts' and the divergent fates of the region's democratic regimes.

Why do very different countries often emulate the same policy model? Two years after Ronald Reagan's income-tax simplification of 1986, Brazil adopted a similar

The late twentieth century witnessed the birth of an impressive number of new democracies in Latin America. This wave of democratization since 1978 has been by