Contents

Acknowledgments

Acronyms

Introduction

Steven Levitsky and Mar?a Victoria Murillo

PART I: INSTITUTIONS, ACTORS, AND THE POLITICS OF ECONOMIC REFORM

1. Building Castles in the Sand?

The Politics of Institutional Weakness in Argentina

Steven Levitsky and Mar?a Victoria Murillo

2. The Institutional Foundations of Public Policy: A

Transaction Cost Approach and Its Application to Argentina

Pablo T. Spiller and Mariano Tommasi

3. Old Actors in New Markets: Transforming the

Populist/Industrial Coalition in Argentina, 1989?2001

Sebasti?n Etchemendy

4. Menem and the Governors: Intergovernmental

Relations in the 1990s

Kent Eaton

PART II: RETHINKING DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS

5. Provincial Party Bosses: Keystone of the Argentine Congress

Mark P. Jones and Wonjae Hwang

6. Enduring Uncertainty: Court-Executive Relations in Argentina During the 1990s and Beyond

Gretchen Helmke

PART III: CHANGE AND CONTINUITY IN THE ARGENTINE PARTY SYSTEM

7. Citizens Versus Political Class: The Crisis of Partisan Representation

Juan Carlos Torre

8. Crisis and Renovation: Institutional Weakness and the Transformation of Argentine Peronism, 1983?2003

Steven Levitsky

9. The New Iron Law of Argentine Politics? Partisanship,Clientelism, and Governability in Contemporary Argentina

Ernesto Calvo and Mar?a Victoria Murillo

PART IV: EMERGING PATTERNS OF CIVIC ORGANIZATION AND PROTEST

10. Demanding Accountable Government: Citizens, Politicians,and the Perils of Representative Democracy in Argentina

Enrique Peruzzotti

11. Protest and Politics in Contemporary Argentina

Javier Auyero

Conclusion: Theorizing About Weak Institutions: Lessons From the Argentine Case

Steven Levitsky and Mar?a Victoria Murillo

References

Contributors

Index

Argentine Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness

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