Democratic governance in Latin America / edited by Scott Mainwaring and Timothy R. Scully.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part one: variance in success: economics, social policy, and the state -- Measuring success in democratic governance / Scott Mainwaring, Timothy R. Scully, and Jorge Vargas Cullell -- Economic growth in Latin America: from the disappointment of the twentieth century to the challenges of the twenty-first / José De Gregorio -- Does one size fit all in policy reform? cross-national evidence and its implications for Latin America / Francisco Rodríguez -- More market or more state for Latin America? a reflection for the post-crisis / Alejandro Foxley -- Successful social policy regimes? political economy, politics, and social policy in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, and Costa Rica / Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens -- Institutional design and judicial effectiveness: lessons from the prosecution of rights violations for democratic governance and the rule of law / Daniel M. Brinks -- Political institutions, populism, and democracy in Latin America / Patricio Navia and Ignacio Walker -- Part two: Country cases: explaining success -- Democratic governance in Chile / Alan Angell -- Limits to Costa Rican heterodoxy: what has changed in "paradise"? / Mitchell A. Seligson and Juliana Mart́inez Franzoni -- Structural reform and governability: the Brazilian experience in the 1990s / Fernando Henrique Cardoso -- Part three: conclusion -- Democratic governance in Latin America: eleven lessons from recent experience / Scott Mainwaring and Timothy R. Scully -- Postscript: democratic governance in Latin America / José Miguel Insulza.