Twenty years of governance and political reform in Argentina, the causes of the December 2001 crisis

Abstract

Are Latin American societies poorly governed or are they simply unmanageable? That is the question that guides this work. In the first case, governance deficits that occur in most of the continent would be allocable to an insufficient supply of government; in the second, an oversized demand would exceed any possibility of satisfaction. This paper analyzes the supply and demand of governance in a country of the Southern Cone, Argentina, over the past 70 years.