Author: Christopher Sabatini | Journal of Democracy

Articles by Christopher Sabatini:

April 2003, Volume 14, Issue 2

Latin America’s Lost Illusions: Decentralization and Political Parties

Christopher Sabatini

Decentralization, heralded as a means of increasing state efficiency and improving representation, has fragmented Latin America’s already weak party systems

October 2006, Volume 17, Issue 4

A “Left Turn” in Latin America? The Urgent Need for Labor Law Reform

Eric Farnsworth
Christopher Sabatini

Latin America must find a way to include its newly urbanized informal workers in more regular channels of economic and political participation. Updating outmoded labor laws is a key to accomplishing this task.

Books:

Latin America’s Struggle for Democracy

Marc F. Plattner
Larry Diamond
Diego Abente-Brun

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