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The Organizational Consequences of Politics: A Research Agenda for the Study of Bureaucratic Politics in Latin America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

John Polga-Hecimovich  and
Alejandro Trelles
John Polga-Hecimovich
Affiliation:
U.S. Naval Academy. [email protected]
Alejandro Trelles
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh. [email protected]
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Abstract

The study of the bureaucracy in Latin America, within the study of politics, has long been little more than an afterthought. It is assumed to lie in the realm of public administration, distinct from other regional subfields that have increasingly gained the attention of political scientists. As a result, scholars' understanding of Latin American bureaucratic politics is limited. Here, we conduct a comprehensive survey of peer-reviewed articles to evaluate the state of this subfield. We find a thematically, analytically, and methodologically splintered discipline, but a prime one for exploitation and new avenues of research. This article summarizes salient trends in the literature, describes advances in the study of bureaucracy in Latin America, and discusses limitations in this scholarship. It suggests a roadmap for scholars by proposing a series of research questions and recommends a series of analytical and methodological approaches to address those questions.

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Latin American Politics and Society , Volume 58 , Issue 4 , Winter 2016 , pp. 56 - 79
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