Agustin E. Ferraro

Universidad de Salamanca · Department of Political Science

Neoliberalism is often studied as a political ideology, a government program, and even as a pattern of cultural identities. However, less attention is paid to the specific institutional resources employed by neoliberal administrations, which have resulted in the configuration of a neoliberal state model. This accessible volume compiles original ess...

Neoliberalism is often studied as a political ideology, a government program, and even as a pattern of cultural identities. However, less attention is paid to the specific institutional resources employed by neoliberal administrations, which have resulted in the configuration of a neoliberal state model. This accessible volume compiles original ess...

Research and teaching about the state in Latin America have been under the strong influence of constitutional law and political philosophy since the nineteenth century. To this day, a formal constitutional understanding of the state dominates not only professional training and scholarly research in the fields of government and public administration...

In connection with the democratic transition in Mexico, several autonomous organisms were created by constitutional amendment, in significant public policy areas. However, these same organisms came under increasing criticism over the past years, as technocratic and illegitimate, in the country's national media. Institutional confrontation followed....

The Next Generation EU (NGEU) fund is a European Union economic recovery package to support member states adversely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This program represents an unprecedented effort. Besides promoting a European Union more ecological, digital, and resilient, the recovery funds aim at financing projects of public-private partnership...

El instrumento Europeo de Recuperación supone un esfuerzo sin precedentes para impulsar la recuperación económica tras la crisis sanitaria de 2020. Además de fomentar una Unión Europea más ecológica, digital y resiliente, los fondos persiguen financiar proyectos de colaboración público-privada en torno a una serie de pilares. Algunos especialmente...

El concepto de dificultad contramayoritaria, aplicado al control de constitucionalidad, describe el problema de justificar que un tribunal declare inválida (inconstitucional) una ley, votada por los representantes de una mayoría de los ciudadanos. ¿Es esto legítimo? En el presente trabajo, analizamos un problema similar respecto a las burocracias p...

State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain - edited by Agustin E. Ferraro December 2018

State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain - edited by Agustin E. Ferraro December 2018

State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain - edited by Agustin E. Ferraro December 2018

Cambridge Core - Latin American Studies - State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain - edited by Agustin E. Ferraro

State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain - edited by Agustin E. Ferraro December 2018

State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain - edited by Agustin E. Ferraro December 2018

Does more citizen participation necessarily improve the democratic quality and/or the effectiveness of government? What forms of participation have the potential to accomplish these goals? And, more important, how can these participatory mechanisms be integrated into traditional representative and bureaucratic governance practices, in order to gras...

There has been a growing demand for increasing citizen participation on public governance in the last three decades. But, can more citizen participation improve the democratic quality and/or the effectiveness of government? What forms of participation have the potential to accomplish these goals? And more important, how can these participatory mech...

El presente informe se basa en un estudio realizado en El Salvador por dos consultores internacionales, investigadores de la Universidad de Salamanca, durante agosto y septiembre de 2013. Como parte del estudio se realizaron catorce entrevistas en profundidad a informantes clave en la Ciudad de San Salvador. Los informantes clave incluyeron miembro...

The present chapter studies Argentina’s federal bureaucracy, ten years after the civil service reform of 1991–92, which created a civil service career for the whole public sector. The reform had a Weberian character, that is to say, it was based on meritocratic recruitment, internal promotion, job tenure, and improved salaries for civil servants en...

The growth of institutional capacity in the developing world has become a central theme in twenty-first-century social science. Many studies have shown that public institutions are an important determinant of long-run rates of economic growth. This book argues that to understand the difficulties and pitfalls of state building in the contemporary wo...

The growth of institutional capacity in the developing world has become a central theme in twenty-first-century social science. Many studies have shown that public institutions are an important determinant of long-run rates of economic growth. This book argues that to understand the difficulties and pitfalls of state building in the contemporary wo...

State building as the development of institutional capacity has become a central topic of discussion in twenty-first-century social science. Many studies have shown that public institutions are an important (some would argue the most important) determinant of long-term rates of economic growth. In order to understand the difi culties and pitfalls o...

Introduction Fiscal regimes in Argentina and Spain were marked during the nineteenth century by two conflicting trends. On the one hand, political liberalism gradually introduced two basic institutional reforms, the rule of law and the systematization of the tax code. On the other hand, traditional patron-client political practices were able to sur...

Chile presents a paradox for legislative studies. In most comparative research on the political power of presidents and assemblies in Latin America, the Chilean presidency is considered one of the most powerful in the region. The country's congress is seen, accordingly, as weak and lacking influence over public policy. Such evaluations, however, te...

La reforma del servicio civil de 1991/92 creó en Argentina una burocracia profesional (en el clásico sentido "weberiano") a escala relativamente masiva para países de América Latina. En la presente nota se exponen resultados de una investigación empírica que conciernen a la situación del servicio público federal argentino, diez años después de la r...

Argentina's civil service reform of 1991-92 created a professional bureaucracy - in the classic "Weberian" sense - on a relatively massive scale for Latin American countries. The present note introduces results of empirical research related to the condition of Argentina's federal civil service, ten years after the reform. Based on interviews with k...

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Argentina represents the first and thus far only country in Latin America to have attempted a Weberian reform of the civil service on a massive scale. The reforms of 1991-1992 introduced a bureaucratic career based on meritocratic recruitment, internal promotion, job stability and improved salaries for civil servants entering the system. The presen...

El artículo aborda el aporte que puede realizar el Congreso a la buena gestión administrativa mediante su participación en la elaboración de política públicas y en la dirección operativa sobre su implementación. El trabajo discute la forma muy activa en que el Congreso de los Estados Unidos participa en la dirección operativa sobre la administració...