A review of Democracies in Development: Politics and Reform in Latin America by J. Mark Payne et al.
About the Author
Mark P. Jones is associate professor of political science at Michigan State University and a research scholar at the Centro de Estudios para el Desarrollo Institucional in Argentina.
A particular pattern of institutional change—“serial replacement”—is dominant in Latin America and other developing countries with weak institutional contexts. This pattern is characterized by institutional change that is both frequent…