Capital City Politics in Latin America : : Democratization and Empowerment / / ed. by Henry A. Dietz, David J. Myers.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Davis, Diane E.,; De Luca, Miguel,; Dietz, Henry A.,; Dávila, Julio D.,; Ellner, Steve,; Garcia-Iragorri, Alexandra,; Gilbert, Alan G.,; Graham, Lawrence S.,; Inés Tula, María,; Jacobi, Pedro,; Jickling, David,; Jones, Mark P.,; Martelli, Giorgio,; Myers, David J.,; Scarpaci, Joseph L.,; Siavelis, Peter M.,; Tanaka, Martín,; Van Treek, Esteban Valenzuela,
• HerausgeberIn: Dietz, Henry A.,; Myers, David J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 p.)

As Latin America's new democratic regimes have decentralized, the region's capital cities--and their elected mayors--have gained increasing importance. Capital City Politics in Latin America tells the story of these cities: how they are changing operationally, how the the empowerment of ma...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 1 The Dynamics of Local Empowerment: An Overview
• 2 Bogotá: Progress Within a Hostile Environment
• 3 Buenos Aires: The Evolution of Local Governance
• 4 Caracas: Incomplete Empowerment Amid Geopolitical Feudalism
• 5 Guatemala City: Mayors and the Struggle for Political Autonomy
• 6 Havana: The Dynamics of Local Executive Power
• 7 Lima: Centralized Authority vs. the Struggle for Autonomy
• 8 Mexico City: The Local-National Dynamics of Democratization
• 9 Santiago: Municipal Decentralization in a Centralized Political System
• 10 São Paulo: Tensions Between Clientelism and Participatory Democracy
• 11 Conclusions
• Bibliography
• The Contributors
• Index
• About the Book