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Papers by Kent Eaton

Journal of development studies, Apr 29, 2024

Peacebuilding, Sep 10, 2023

Perspectives on Politics, Aug 31, 2016

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Oct 13, 2016

Perspectives on Federalism, 2020

Lynne Rienner Publishers eBooks, May 1, 2010

Latin American Politics and Society, Aug 27, 2019

Making Decentralization Work

Oxford Scholarship Online, 2017

Around the world, familiar ideological conflicts over the market are becoming increasingly territ... more Around the world, familiar ideological conflicts over the market are becoming increasingly territorialized in the form of policy conflicts between national and subnational governments. Thanks to a series of trends such as globalization, democratization, and especially decentralization, subnational governments are now in a position more effectively to challenge the ideological orientation of the national government. This book conceptualizes these challenges as operating in two related but distinct modes. The first stems from elected subnational officials who use their authority, resources, and legitimacy to design, implement, and defend subnational policy regimes that deviate ideologically from national policy regimes. The second occurs when these same officials use their authority, resources, and legitimacy to question, oppose, and alter the ideological content of national policy regimes. The book focuses on three similarly situated countries in Latin America where these two types o...

The Journal of Asian Studies, May 1, 2003

When the philippines returned to democratic rule in 1986, two images emerged of the new democracy... more When the philippines returned to democratic rule in 1986, two images emerged of the new democracy that were vastly different and often hard to reconcile with each other. On the one hand, many observers commented on the great extent to which the new democracy appeared merely to restore the country's previous democratic regime from between 1946 and the establishment of martial law in 1972 (Anderson 1988; McCoy 1994, 19; Wurfel 1988, 323). In this earlier democratic period, traditional political clans dominated the country's policy-making institutions and successfully blocked equity-enhancing reforms. Over the course of these decades, elite-dominated parties mastered the politics of clientelism, in which local power brokers delivered vote blocs to national politicians in exchange for the granting of particularistic favors and the blocking of progressive legislation. Fears of a restoration in the mid-1980s appeared well founded, both in the significant presence in the reopened legislature of the country's most powerful economic elites and in the resistance to agrarian and other reforms by the new president, Corazon Aquino, herself a member of a prominent land-owning family. In many respects, democratization in the 1980s marked the return to power of traditional politicians, ortrapos, as they are popularly called, a word that also means “dishrag” in the Tagalog language.

Implications for Aid Effectiveness, 2011

Implications for Aid Effectiveness, 2011

Around the world, familiar ideological conflicts over the market are becoming increasingly territ... more Around the world, familiar ideological conflicts over the market are becoming increasingly territorialized in the form of policy conflicts between national and subnational governments. Thanks to a series of trends like globalization, democratization, and especially decentralization, subnational governments are now in a position to more effectively challenge the ideological orientation of the national government. The book conceptualizes these challenges as operating in two related but distinct modes. The first stems from elected subnational officials who use their authority, resources, and legitimacy to design, implement, and defend subnational policy regimes that deviate ideologically from national policy regimes. The second occurs when these same officials use their authority, resources, and legitimacy to question, oppose, and alter the ideological content of national policy regimes. The book focuses on three similarly-situated countries in Latin America where these two types of po...

Regional & Federal Studies

Oxford Scholarship Online, 2017

This chapter focuses on subnational policy challenges in Bolivia and on the important victories a... more This chapter focuses on subnational policy challenges in Bolivia and on the important victories achieved by neoliberal challengers located in the country’s most powerful department: Santa Cruz. The first half of the chapter traces the strength of Santa Cruz’s neoliberal policy regime to the economic elites who invested heavily in local institutional capacity beginning in the 1950s. When this policy regime came under attack with the rise of President Evo Morales in 2005, local elites grouped together in the Pro-Santa Cruz Committee, and, led by Governor Rubén Costas, successfully maintained it by broadening its internal support coalition. The second half of the chapter explains how neoliberals in Santa Cruz also forced Morales to accept meaningful changes in his preferred, statist national policy regime, an outcome explained by the department’s structural leverage as a producer of foodstuffs and by the coalition Costas built with opposition governors in other eastern departments.

Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics

Revista de ciencia política (Santiago), 2012

For helpful comments on this article, i'd like to thank richard snyder and the participants in th... more For helpful comments on this article, i'd like to thank richard snyder and the participants in the "conference on stateness in Latin america in the 21st century: conceptual challenges", santiago de chile, march 29-30, 2012. this article is part of the millenium nucleus for the study of stateness and democracy in Latin america, project ns100014, of the ministry of economy and tourism of chile. i would like to thank the financial support of FOndecYt (project 1110565).

Journal of development studies, Apr 29, 2024

Peacebuilding, Sep 10, 2023

Perspectives on Politics, Aug 31, 2016

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Oct 13, 2016

Perspectives on Federalism, 2020

Lynne Rienner Publishers eBooks, May 1, 2010

Latin American Politics and Society, Aug 27, 2019

Making Decentralization Work

Oxford Scholarship Online, 2017

Around the world, familiar ideological conflicts over the market are becoming increasingly territ... more Around the world, familiar ideological conflicts over the market are becoming increasingly territorialized in the form of policy conflicts between national and subnational governments. Thanks to a series of trends such as globalization, democratization, and especially decentralization, subnational governments are now in a position more effectively to challenge the ideological orientation of the national government. This book conceptualizes these challenges as operating in two related but distinct modes. The first stems from elected subnational officials who use their authority, resources, and legitimacy to design, implement, and defend subnational policy regimes that deviate ideologically from national policy regimes. The second occurs when these same officials use their authority, resources, and legitimacy to question, oppose, and alter the ideological content of national policy regimes. The book focuses on three similarly situated countries in Latin America where these two types o...

The Journal of Asian Studies, May 1, 2003

When the philippines returned to democratic rule in 1986, two images emerged of the new democracy... more When the philippines returned to democratic rule in 1986, two images emerged of the new democracy that were vastly different and often hard to reconcile with each other. On the one hand, many observers commented on the great extent to which the new democracy appeared merely to restore the country's previous democratic regime from between 1946 and the establishment of martial law in 1972 (Anderson 1988; McCoy 1994, 19; Wurfel 1988, 323). In this earlier democratic period, traditional political clans dominated the country's policy-making institutions and successfully blocked equity-enhancing reforms. Over the course of these decades, elite-dominated parties mastered the politics of clientelism, in which local power brokers delivered vote blocs to national politicians in exchange for the granting of particularistic favors and the blocking of progressive legislation. Fears of a restoration in the mid-1980s appeared well founded, both in the significant presence in the reopened legislature of the country's most powerful economic elites and in the resistance to agrarian and other reforms by the new president, Corazon Aquino, herself a member of a prominent land-owning family. In many respects, democratization in the 1980s marked the return to power of traditional politicians, ortrapos, as they are popularly called, a word that also means “dishrag” in the Tagalog language.

Implications for Aid Effectiveness, 2011

Implications for Aid Effectiveness, 2011

Around the world, familiar ideological conflicts over the market are becoming increasingly territ... more Around the world, familiar ideological conflicts over the market are becoming increasingly territorialized in the form of policy conflicts between national and subnational governments. Thanks to a series of trends like globalization, democratization, and especially decentralization, subnational governments are now in a position to more effectively challenge the ideological orientation of the national government. The book conceptualizes these challenges as operating in two related but distinct modes. The first stems from elected subnational officials who use their authority, resources, and legitimacy to design, implement, and defend subnational policy regimes that deviate ideologically from national policy regimes. The second occurs when these same officials use their authority, resources, and legitimacy to question, oppose, and alter the ideological content of national policy regimes. The book focuses on three similarly-situated countries in Latin America where these two types of po...

Regional & Federal Studies

Oxford Scholarship Online, 2017

This chapter focuses on subnational policy challenges in Bolivia and on the important victories a... more This chapter focuses on subnational policy challenges in Bolivia and on the important victories achieved by neoliberal challengers located in the country’s most powerful department: Santa Cruz. The first half of the chapter traces the strength of Santa Cruz’s neoliberal policy regime to the economic elites who invested heavily in local institutional capacity beginning in the 1950s. When this policy regime came under attack with the rise of President Evo Morales in 2005, local elites grouped together in the Pro-Santa Cruz Committee, and, led by Governor Rubén Costas, successfully maintained it by broadening its internal support coalition. The second half of the chapter explains how neoliberals in Santa Cruz also forced Morales to accept meaningful changes in his preferred, statist national policy regime, an outcome explained by the department’s structural leverage as a producer of foodstuffs and by the coalition Costas built with opposition governors in other eastern departments.

Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics

Revista de ciencia política (Santiago), 2012

For helpful comments on this article, i'd like to thank richard snyder and the participants in th... more For helpful comments on this article, i'd like to thank richard snyder and the participants in the "conference on stateness in Latin america in the 21st century: conceptual challenges", santiago de chile, march 29-30, 2012. this article is part of the millenium nucleus for the study of stateness and democracy in Latin america, project ns100014, of the ministry of economy and tourism of chile. i would like to thank the financial support of FOndecYt (project 1110565).