Latin America

Readings and class materials for Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Readings

Mariana Chudnovsky, “Latin American Public Administration,” in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics (Oxford University Press, 2021), https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1426.
Conrado Ramos and Alejandro Milanesi, “A Brief Story of Latin American Public Administration: A Particular Model,” in The Emerald Handbook of Public Administration in Latin America, ed. B. Guy Peters, Carlos Alba Tercedor, and Conrado Ramos (Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021), 9–19, https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83982-676-420201002.
Cristina Zurbriggen, “The Dilemmas of Governance in Latin America,” in The Emerald Handbook of Public Administration in Latin America, ed. B. Guy Peters, Carlos Alba Tercedor, and Conrado Ramos (Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021), 375–405, https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83982-676-420201015.
Wolfgang Muno and Héctor Briceño, “Autocratization and Public Administration: The Revolutionary-Populist Regime in Venezuela in Comparative Perspective,” Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, January 2023, 1–20, https://doi.org/10.1080/23276665.2022.2148262.
Rik Peeters and Sergio A. Campos, “Taking the Bite Out of Administrative Burdens: How Beneficiaries of a Mexican Social Program Ease Administrative Burdens in Street-Level Interactions,” Governance 34, no. 4 (October 2021): 1001–18, https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12534.

How to discuss an article in a seminar

Weber, Marx, Dependency Theory, and public administration outside of the OECD
Hybrid and heterogenous Latin American bureaucracies
Latin American public administration
- Chudnovsky, “Latin American Public Administration.” and Ramos and Milanesi, “A Brief Story of Latin American Public Administration.”
- Zurbriggen, “The Dilemmas of Governance in Latin America.”
- Muno and Briceño, “Autocratization and Public Administration.”
- Peeters and Campos, “Taking the Bite Out of Administrative Burdens.”