Forbearance as Redistribution: Enforcement Politics in Urban Latin America

Why do governments tolerate the violation of their own laws and regulations, and when do they enforce them? Conventional wisdom is that state weakness erodes enforcement, particularly in the developing world. In contrast, I highlight the understudied political costs of enforcement. Governments cho...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Holland, Alisha Caroline
Other Authors: Dominguez, Jorge I.
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2014
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Online Access:http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11648
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12274631