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It is not the strongest
of the species that survive
nor the most intelligent,
but the most responsive
to change.
—Charles Darwin |
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Part II examined the role of a variety of actors—formal and informal, professional politicians and members of civil society—as they interact in different arenas in the policymaking processes of Latin American countries. The chapters in Part II discussed these actors’ incentives and capabilities, as well as the rules of the game (the institutions) that help shape their behavior.
Part III takes a step toward relating several key institutional features to policymaking processes, and to the characteristics of resulting policies. Chapter 6 takes a cross-country approach. It builds empirical measures of the characteristics of public policies and relates those characteristics to several of the institutional features suggested by the framework of Chapter 2 and studied in Part II. Chapter 7 presents highlights from detailed country cases, focusing on some of the interactions among the various institutional features in specific historical contexts.
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