Research Catalog

Title

Political careers, corruption, and impunity : Panama's assembly, 1984-2009 / Carlos Guevara Mann.

Author

Guevara Mann, Carlos

Publication

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2011.

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Additional Authors

Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies

Description

xvii, 453 p.; 23 cm.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Legislative bodies > Panama > History
• Legislators > Panama > History
• Panama > Politics and government > 1981-
• Panama. Asamblea Legislativa
• Political corruption > Panama
• Representative government and representation > Panama

Note

• "Recent titles from the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies".

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Political representation and representative assemblies -- The party system: parties and actors in Panama's assembly -- Formal institutional incentives to behavior -- Informal institutions and assembly members' behavior -- Political advancement through reelection: prospects and possibilities in Panama -- Political advancement through reelection: the legal and illegal uses of patronage -- Political advancement through reelection: party switching and electoral manipulation -- Personal enrichment through legal means: assembly members' wages in comparative perspective -- Personal enrichment through legal means: expanding emoluments and privileges -- Personal enrichment through illegal means -- Preserving immunity through reelection.

ISBN

• 9780268029838 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0268029830 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011036540

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library