Democracy, political partisanship, and state capacity in Latin America

Content Provider	Scilit
Author	Grassi, Davide Memoli, Vincenzo
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Social scientists have often neglected, or not sufficiently explored, the role of political factors in shaping state capacity. When they did, they mostly focused on key institutional features of political regimes, especially democracy. In this paper, we broaden this approach: besides the institutional traits of democracy, we analyze how governments and their ideologies influence state capacity. In particular, we assess the impact of democracy and executives’ partisanship on a composite index of state capacity, based on political order, administrative ability, and extractive capacity. To this end, we apply a pooled cross-sectional time-series model to 18 Latin American countries between 1995 and 2009. Our findings suggest that, in recent years, state capacity in the region was significantly affected by both democratic features and the ideological bearing of elected governments.
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Ending Page	69
Page Count	23
Starting Page	47
ISSN	00488402
e-ISSN	20574908
DOI	10.1017/ipo.2015.25
Journal	Italian Political Science Review / Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	46
Language	English
Publisher	Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publisher Date	2016-03-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Italian Political Science Review Urban and Regional Planning Latin America State Capacity
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations