Local Government in Latin America

By R. Andrew Nickson

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555873669
• ISBN13: 9781555873660
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Lynne Rienner Pub
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Local gov't -- not as boring as you might have thought!

I wish I could afford to buy this book now. I had access to it when I was studying decentralization in grad school 10 years ago and it gave me a tremendous amount of new insight into why things work the way they do in Central America where I lived for 10 years. From what I remember, it provided a dispassionate explanation of the administrative systems brought from Spain and their evolution into the New World's patron-client relationships. This served me when I tried to understand how cultures of exploitation, repression, and submissivemess functioned, and why many outside experts' plans for remaking society didn't tend to work very well....