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050 00 $aJL2029.P64$bS64 2007
082 00 $a320.60982$222
100 1 $aSpiller, Pablo T.$q(Pablo Tomas),$d1951-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89607160
245 14 $aThe institutional foundations of public policy in Argentina /$cPablo T. Spiller, Mariano Tommasi.
260 $aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2007.
300 $axiii, 237 pages :$billustrations, map ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aPolitical economy of institutions and decisions
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 211-228) and index.
505 00 $gI.$tAn intertemporal approach to policy making -- $g1.$tSketch of the framework and implications -- $g2.$tA theory of intertemporal political cooperation -- $gII.$tThe workings of political institutions, policy making, and policies in Argentina -- $g3.$tCongress, political careers, and the provincial connection -- $g4.$tFederalism, Argentine style -- $g5.$tThe Supreme Court -- $g6.$tThe bureaucracy -- $g7.$tThe nature of public policies in Argentina.
520 1 $a"The authors have two purposes in this book. They develop a general model of public policy making focused on the difficulties of securing intertemporal exchanges among politicians. Their model enables them to derive a series of empirical propositions about the conditions under which policies are likely to be volatile, rigid, or high quality. They combine the tools of game theory with Williamson's transaction cost theory, North's institutional arguments, and contract theory to provide a general theory of public policy making in a comparative political economy setting. They also undertake a detailed study of Argentina, using statistical evidence when and where it is available to complement their nuanced account of institutions, rules, incentives, and outcomes. They manage to make comprehensible the reasons for Argentina's seeming inability to design and implement high-quality public policies over a sustained period of time. If the book does nothing else (and it does a lot more), it would be required reading based just on the empirical material and its interpretation."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aPolitical planning$zArgentina.
651 0 $aArgentina$xPolitics and government.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85007057
651 0 $aArgentina$xEconomic policy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100614
651 0 $aArgentina$xSocial policy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114252
700 1 $aTommasi, Mariano,$d1964-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94054082
830 0 $aPolitical economy of institutions and decisions.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84729581
852 00 $bleh$hJL2029.P64$iS64 2007