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Author Gervasoni, Carlos, author.

Title Hybrid regimes within democracies : fiscal federalism and subnational rentier states / Carlos Gervasoni
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 289 pages) : illustrations, maps, charts
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Imprints Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface and Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; I.1 Getting on the Agenda: Comparative Politics and Subnational Regimes; I.2 Description: Objective and Subjective Operationalizations of Subnational Democracy; I.3 Explanation: A Rentier Theory of Subnational Democracy; I.4 Democracy, Federalism, and Subnational Politics in Argentina; I.5 Plan of the Book; Part I. Description: The Anatomy and Evolution of Subnational Regimes; 1 Defining and Measuring Subnational Regimes
1.1 The Background Concept: Democracy1.1.1 Level or Quality of Democracy?; 1.2 The Systematized Concept: Liberal Representative Democracy; 1.2.1 The Other End: Authoritarianism or Hybrid Regimes?; 1.2.2 The Dimensions and Subdimensions of the Concept; 1.2.2.1 The Democratic Dimension: Contested, Inclusive, and Effective Elections; 1.2.2.2 The Liberal Dimension: Institutional Constraints and Individual Rights; 1.2.2.3 Components and Subcomponents of Democracy; 1.3 Indicators: Objective and Subjective Measures of Democracy; 1.4 Aggregation: From Indicators to Indices of Subnational Regimes
1.5 Conclusion2 The Subnational Democracy Index: Trends in Provincial Regimes (1983−2015); 2.1 Objective Indicators: The Subnational Democracy Index; 2.2 Results of the Subnational Democracy Index; 2.2.1 Subnational Regime Variance: Cross-sectional and Temporal Components; 2.3 Democratic and Hybrid Provinces: Qualitative Evidence on Regime Differences; 2.4 Conclusion; 3 Expert Survey Evidence: The Many Dimensions of Subnational Democracy; 3.1 Subjective Indicators: The Survey of Experts on Provincial Politics; 3.1.1 Aggregation: From Individual Responses to Provincial Indices
3.2 Results of the Survey of Experts on Provincial Politics3.2.1 Two Dimensions of Subnational Regimes: Incumbency Advantage and Repression; 3.2.2 First- and Second-level Indices of Subnational Democracy: National Level; 3.2.3 First- and Second-level Indices of Subnational Democracy: All Provinces; 3.2.4 A Look at the National Distribution of Individual Items; 3.3 Comparing Objective and Subjective Measures of Subnational Democracy; 3.4 Conclusion; Part II. Explanation: The Causes of Subnational Regimes; 4 On the Rentier Effects of Fiscal Federalism on Subnational Regimes
4.1 Theories of Subnational Democracy4.2 State-Society Balance, Fiscal, and Rentier Theories of Democracy; 4.2.1 Democracy as the Effect of State-Society Balance; 4.2.2 Democracy as the Effect of Fiscal Bargains; 4.2.3 Authoritarianism as the Effect of Natural Resource (and Other) Rents; 4.2.4 Statism: Where Balance, Fiscal and Rentier Theories Meet; 4.3 Climbing up the Ladder of Abstraction: From "Resource Rents" to "Fiscal Rents"; 4.4 Climbing Down to the Subnational Level: From "Rentier States" to "Rentier Regions"; 4.5 Conceptualizing Fiscal Rents
Summary "From the racially segregated 'Jim Crow' US South to the many electoral but hardly democratic local regimes in Argentina and other federal democracies, the political rights of citizens around the world are often curtailed by powerful subnational rulers. Hybrid Regimes within Democracies presents the first comprehensive study of democracy and authoritarianism in all the subnational units of a federation. The book focuses on Argentina, but also contains a comparative chapter that considers seven other federations including Germany, Mexico, and the USA. The in-depth and multidimensional description of subnational regimes in all Argentine provinces is complemented with an innovative explanation for the large differences between those that are democratic and those that are 'hybrid', complex combinations of democratic and authoritarian elements. Putting forward and testing an original theory of subnational democracy, Gervasoni extends the rentier-state explanatory logic from resource rents to a more general concept, such as 'fiscal federalism rents', and from the national to the subnational level"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Provincial governments -- Argentina
Federal government -- Argentina
Intergovernmental fiscal relations -- Argentina
Central-local government relations -- Argentina
Political corruption -- Argentina
Democracy -- Argentina
Authoritarianism -- Argentina
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
Authoritarianism
Central-local government relations
Democracy
Federal government
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Political corruption
Politics and government
Provincial governments
SUBJECT Argentina -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85007057
Subject Argentina
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781108625913
1108625916
9781108590679
1108590675