Includes bibliographical references and index.

Measuring success in democratic governance / Scott Mainwaring, Timothy R. Scully, and Jorge Vargas Cullell -- Economic growth in Latin America : from the disappointment of the twentieth century to the challenges of the twenty-first / Josâe De Gregorio -- Does one size fit all in policy reform? : cross-national evidence and its implications for Latin America / Francisco Rodrâiguez -- More market or more state for Latin America? : a reflection for the post-crisis / Alejandro Foxley -- Successful social policy regimes? : political economy, politics, and social policy in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, and Costa Rica / Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens -- Institutional design and judicial effectiveness : lessons from the prosecution of rights violations for democratic governance and the rule of law / Daniel M. Brinks -- Political institutions, populism, and democracy in Latin America / Patricio Navia and Ignacio Walker -- Democratic governance in Chile / Alan Angell -- Limits to Costa Rican heterodoxy : what has changed in "paradise"? / Mitchell A. Seligson and Juliana Martâinez Franzoni -- Structural reform and governability : the Brazilian experience in the 1990s / Fernando Henrique Cardoso -- Democratic governance in Latin America : eleven lessons from recent experience / Scott Mainwaring and Timothy R. Scully -- Postscript : democratic governance in Latin America / José Miguel Insulza.