Audacious Reforms: Institutional Invention and Democracy in Latin America

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The diffusion of Conditional Cash Transfer programs in the Americas (2011, background): “The literature in comparative politics has demonstrated how difficult it is to undertake reform of the social welfare system because of the high political costs of doing so (Corrales, 1999; Grindle, 2000, 2004; Kaufman and Nelson, 2004).”
Good Enough Governance: Poverty Reduction and Reform in Developing Countries (2004, background): “On issues of governance generally in developing countries, see Bräutigan; Graham and Naím; Grindle (2000b); Grindle and Hilderbrand; Kaufmann, Kraay, and Zoido-Lobatón; Narayan.”
Decentralization and the Development of Nationalized Party Systems in New Democracies: Evidence From Latin America (2010, background): “Decentralization is seen as a consequence of large-scale political changes—particularly, democratization (e.g., Grindle, 2000; Nickson, 1995) and the switch to a new economic model (e.g., Litvak, Ahmad, & Bird, 1998).”
The Limits of Institutional Reform in Development: Changing Rules for Realistic Solutions (2013, background): “Scholars of comparative politics have developed empirically sound and theoretically rigorous approaches to examine the complex intersection of institutions, authority relations and political-economic context (Grindle, 2000; Boone, 2003).”