Administrative Decentralization and Development: Some Conflicting Evidence from Ecuador

Mangelsdorf, Karen R.

doi:10.1177/002085238805400103

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“…Increasingly, researchers have turned their attention to the effects of decentralization, particularly in developing areas. For instance, several studies have examined the causal relationship between decentralization and the provision of services [Inter American Development Bank (IADB) 1997; Weisner 1994] and development strategy (see Manglesdorf 1988). Few studies to date have explored the effects of political decentralization on national party systems.…”

Section: The Political Implications Of Decentralization In Latin Americamentioning

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“…10 Third, I excluded elections that simultaneously selected members of two houses. 11 1983, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1999Bolivia 1980, 1985, 1989Brazil 1986Chile 1989Colombia 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986Costa Rica 1953, 1958, 1962, 1966, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986Dominican Republic 1986Ecuador 1978, 1986, 1988, 1996El Salvador 1985, 1988, 1991Guatemala 1985Honduras 1981, 1985, 1989Mexico 1991Nicaragua 1990, 1996Panama 1984, 1999Paraguay 1989Peru 1980, 1985Uruguay 1984, 1989, 1999Venezuela 1958, 1963, 1968…”

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Subnational Determinants of National Multipartism in Latin America

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2003

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Recent research points to the importance of subnational elections as variables shaping the national party system in federal states (Jones 1997b; Mainwaring and Shugart 1997; Samuels 2000). I propose that the effects of subnational elections are not limited to federal states but instead can be seen throughout the region. This paper examines the impacts of gubernatorial elections across eighteen Latin American countries during the most recent democratic period. The analysis suggests that intermediate subnational elections do exert an influence on national party systems, whether the state is federal or not, and particularly influence how many parties are elected to a legislature's lower house.

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confidence: 99%