Mounting Pressures on the Rule of Law : Governability for Development and Democracy in Latin America / edited by Jacqueline Behrend and Laurence Whitehead.

Includes index.

The rule of law, development, and democracy in Latin America: Theory and experience -- Extending legal security in the Peruvian mining sector: The formalization of informal miners -- Bureaucratic bypass as a strategy in the implementation of public policies: The case of industrial promotion in Argentina (1982–92) -- Environmental governance and participation: Mining and forest protection in Argentina -- “Old wine in new bottles”: Technopopulism and the challenges of infrastructure provision in Latin America -- Subnational variations and the rule of law in Argentina: Political dynasties, elite turnover, and Supreme Court oversight -- The effects of warring and civil oligarchs on Colombia’s subnational democracy -- After the stealth intervention: Civil–military relations and rule of law in post-Bolsonaro Brazil -- National referendums on natural resources: Are they effective for conflict resolution? -- Prosecutors as rule of law gatekeepers in contemporary Latin America: A survey -- Mexico’s new Fiscalía General de la República: Still misfiring -- Confronting extractivism: The Inter-American Human Rights System and indigenous rights in Latin America -- Sustainable development and multilateral development banks: A framework for analyzing sources of norms and decision-making in global governance -- Unbundling rules of law at the peripheries of Latin American states -- Latin American state apparatuses and the rule of law.

This important book offers an original perspective on the rule of law, development, and democracy in Latin America, establishing a new approach in recognizing the realities of political economy as opposed to merely structural and institutional factors. With contributions from an international team of experts, the book outlines the main challenges that have arisen in the pursuit of a developmental agenda in the region, including subnational variations, state capture by local elites, variations in state capacity, border divergence from centrally designed perspectives, environmental conflicts, uneven access to justice and the role of international organizations. In doing so, the book explores the democratic and developmental implications of conflicts over the rule of law and its application, uneven enforcement, and state capture.

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