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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
La mirada ciudadana sobre los comicios: Evaluación de la puesta en práctica de la política de Acompañamiento Cívico en las elecciones nacionales de 2011 y 2013
(Georgetown University, 2015)
El presente trabajo de investigación tiene como objeto de estudio el caso de la observación electoral nacional en Argentina. La observación electoral nacional o doméstica refiere a la posibilidad de que los ciudadanos y ...
TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVES: ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC POLICIES APPLIED BY ARGENTINA’S ANTI-CORRUPTION OFFICE, 2000-2013
(Georgetown University, 2016)
With greater democratization and economic globalization throughout the modern world, increasing concern over the prevalence of the corruption has translated into policy action within the international sphere. Thus, ...
Where's the Doctor? Targeting, Adoption, and Decentralized Governance of the Mais Médicos (More Doctors) Program and Health Policy in Brazil
(Georgetown University, 2018)
Championed by its supporters as a program for the underprivileged and criticized by its opponents as an electoral program, the Mais Médicos program aimed to provide primary care doctors to lacking regions of Brazil and is ...
Municipal Transparency Reform in Argentina: The Case of Poder Ciudadano's Zero Discretion Accord Program (2003-2006)
(Georgetown University, 2019)
Transparent government reforms have begun to appear in municipal contexts in Argentina, signaling a new trend in public policy. As subnational governments have taken on new policy responsibilities under federal decentralization ...