The crisis of 2001 and Argentine democracy / Edward Epstein and David Pion-Berlin -- The democratic process in Argentina / José Nun -- Police, politics, and society in the province of Buenos Aires / Marcelo Fabián Sain -- The costs of the convertibility plan: the economic and social effects of...

This paper aims to answer the question of how and under what circumstances civilian control can be established in newly democratised nations. To do this, I propose a new theoretical argument that conceives of the process of institutionalising civilian control in new democracies as a series of...

Evidence points to an increasing personalisation of political power by chief executives in recent years. It is often argued that such personalisation contributes to the current trend of autocratisation and the global decline of democracy. Yet our understanding hereof remains fractured, not least...