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World Bank, Governance Reforms and Democracy in Argentina
Author(s) -
Tuozzo María Fernanda
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/j.1470-9856.2004.00098.x
Subject(s) - consolidation (business) , corporate governance , democracy , civil society , democratic consolidation , democratic governance , political science , state (computer science) , dimension (graph theory) , political economy , economics , economic system , public administration , democratization , politics , finance , law , mathematics , algorithm , computer science , pure mathematics
The World Bank's endorsement in the 1990s of institutional reforms as a constitutive dimension of economic development led to the adoption of a governance agenda. The paper analyses the role the Bank exercised in Argentina and explains its influence in the adoption of a new state model, of new state civil society relations and on particular key components of democracy. This paper argues that while the Bank has helped to set up an agenda of reform regarding governance problems, the push for particular policies and practices has also produced partial and contradictory results on the consolidation of democracy.