Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Tables ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. PART ONE. Introduction
6. CHAPTER 1. Explaining Decentralization and Re-centralization 3
7. CHAPTER 2. Definitions, Cases, and Patterns 26
8. PART TWO. Nineteenth-Century Origins, Twentieth-Century Trajectories
9. CHAPTER 3. Decentralization from Below 59
10. CHAPTER 4. Decentralization from Above 86
11. PART THREE. Bureaucratic Authoritarianism Beyond the Capital
12. CHAPTER 5. Subnational Reforms by Military Governments 113
13. PART FOUR. Subnational Institutions in the Third Wave of Democracy
14. CHAPTER 6. The Reemergence of the Governors in Argentina and Brazil 141
15. CHAPTER 7. National Engineering of Subnational Institutions in Chile and Uruguay 168
16. PART FIVE. Conclusion
17. CHAPTER 8. Comparing Waves and Approaches 201
18. Notes 225
19. Works Cited 239
20. Index 257