A Middle-Quality Institutional Trap: Democracy and State Capacity in Latin America

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Politics and Society in Latin America
	Contents
	1 A Research Agenda and Strategy
		1.1 Latin America’s Middle-Quality Institutional Trap
		1.2 Building High-Capacity Democracies: What Do We Know?
		1.3 Toward a New Theory
	2 The State–Democracy Interaction
		2.1 Mechanisms and Mechanism Types
			2.1.1 State-Centered Pro-democracy Mechanisms
			2.1.2 State-Centered Anti-democracy Mechanisms
			2.1.3 Democracy-Centered Pro-State Capacity Mechanisms
		2.2 Combinations of Mechanisms
		2.3 Paths to High-Capacity Democracy
			2.3.1 General Implications
			2.3.2 Implications for Latin America
	3 Paths and Outcomes
		3.1 Measurement and Data
		3.2 Coercive Capacity and Democracy
		3.3 Administrative Capacity and Democracy
		3.4 Conclusions
	4 Mechanisms and Outcomes
		4.1 Advanced Countries
			4.1.1 France
			4.1.2 Great Britain
			4.1.3 United States
		4.2 Latin America
			4.2.1 Brazil
			4.2.2 Mexico
			4.2.3 Argentina
		4.3 Conclusions
	5 Macroconditions of the State–Democracy Interaction
		5.1 Why the Status Quo Persists
			5.1.1 The Legacy of State Formation
			5.1.2 The Political Economy of Twenty-First-Century Populism
			5.1.3 The Political Economy of the Global Drug Trade
		5.2 Why No Progress?
			5.2.1 Socioeconomic Inequality
			5.2.2 Hierarchical Capitalism
			5.2.3 Dependence on International Finance
		5.3 Why No Regression?
			5.3.1 The New International Democracy Regime
			5.3.2 The New Economic Globalization
		5.4 Conclusions
	6 Concluding Remarks
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