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President, Congress, and Budget-making in Argentina and Mexico: The Role of Informal Institutions
(Georgetown University, 2013)
Latin American political systems are characterized by powerful presidential institutions vis à vis legislatures. Presidents hold significant power resources to control the budget process, leaving the congress as a mere ...
Of Fear, Hope and Other Demons: Rhetoric Tailoring in Colombia during Alvaro Uribe's Presidency (2002-2010)
(Georgetown University, 2014)
Presidential rhetoric is an important mechanism to communicate to the public the issues that matter to him and his government. Most of the literature has found that what the President says has small or inconclusive effects ...
UNBREAKABLE: DEVELOPMENTALISM AND MILITARY RULE IN BRAZIL
(Georgetown University, 2016)
This is a study of developmentalism as the ideology that guides economic policy in Brazil. The focus is the military regime that ruled the country from 1964 to 1985. The main argument is that, contrary to what most of the ...
THE HISTORY OF THE NICARAGUAN SOCIAL SECURITY INSTITUTE/ AN ANALYSIS OF PATH DEPENDENCY
(Georgetown University, 2015)
The use of path dependency in political science explanations of institutional development, especially social security helps us to better understand continuities and departures of a policy. The lack of theoretical work on ...
Elementos para la participación ciudadana en la fiscalización pública: una aproximación desde la experiencia de la Contraloría General de Paraguay (2006-2014)
(Georgetown University, 2016)
In the frame of an international debate which states that citizen participation in external oversight contributes to improving control performed by supreme audit institutions, to strengthen government accountability and ...
State Capacity to Implement Public-Private Partnerships for Transport Infrastructure in Costa Rica between 1994-2013. A Case Study of the National Council of Concessions
(Georgetown University, 2015)
In 2013, the World Economic Forum placed Costa Rica in the position 131 out of 144 economies for the category of “quality of roads”. The following year, Costa Rica showed an improvement in the same study ranking 119; yet, ...
Bad Cop, Bad Cop: Corruption in the Buenos Aires Provincial Police. Contemporary Discourse and Suggestions for Future Research.
(Georgetown University, 2016)
This thesis comprehensively reviews literature pertaining to police corruption in the Buenos Aires Provincial Police. In doing so, it organizes and synthesizes contemporary discourse on this topic and suggests areas for ...
Elections Gone Wrong: Political Polarization and Post-Election Conflicts in Presidential Elections in Latin America
(Georgetown University, 2015)
Despite international observers’ endorsement and relatively functional electoral institutions, sometimes losers still reject election results. Under what circumstances does this occur? And when post-election conflicts ...
Civilian Participation in Politics and Violent Revolution: Ideology, Networks, and Action in Peru and India
(Georgetown University, 2017)
How and why do ordinary people in democratic states participate in violent revolution? This dissertation explores variation in the confluence of civilians’ participation in status quo politics – through electoral channels ...
CONTENTIOUS POLITICS IN BRAZIL: THE EVOLUTION OF THE PUBLIC DEMONSTRATIONS FROM JUNE 2013 TO AUGUST 2015
(Georgetown University, 2016)
This thesis analyzes the evolution of urban civil-society mobilization in Brazil after the end of the military dictatorship, in order to understand the astounding changes in the main features of mass protests from May 2013 ...