Political careers, corruption, and impunity : Panama's assembly, 1984-2009 / / Carlos Guevara Mann.

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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Recent titles from the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies
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Physical Description:xvii, 453 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • Political representation and representative assemblies
  • The party system: parties and actors in Panama's assembly
  • Formal institutional incentives to behavior
  • Informal institutions and assembly members' behavior
  • Political advancement through reelection: prospects and possibilities in Panama
  • Political advancement through reelection: the legal and illegal uses of patronage
  • Political advancement through reelection: party switching and electoral manipulation
  • Personal enrichment through legal means: assembly members' wages in comparative perspective
  • Personal enrichment through legal means: expanding emoluments and privileges
  • Personal enrichment through illegal means
  • Preserving immunity through reelection.