Technocracy and Democracy in Latin America

Technocracy and Democracy in Latin America
ISBN-10
1107059879
ISBN-13
9781107059870
Category
Medical
Pages
206
Language
English
Published
2015
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Eduardo Dargent

Description

Praised by some as islands of efficiency in a sea of unprofessional, politicized, and corrupt states, and criticized by others for removing wide areas of policy making from the democratic arena, technocrats have become prominent and controversial actors in Latin American politics. Through an in-depth analysis of economic and health policy in Colombia from 1958 to 2011 and in Peru from 1980 to 2011, Technocracy and Democracy in Latin America explains the source of these experts' power as well as the leverage they have across state policy sectors in Latin America.

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