Overview
- Makes a new contribution to the literature on the policy design frame-work
- Develops a small-n comparison of the causal mechanism linking resource nationalism and public accountability deficits
- Focusses on four major Latin American oil producing countries: Venezuela, Ecuador, Mexico and Brazil
Part of the book series: International Series on Public Policy (ISPP)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Keywords
- policy design
- resource curse
- Latin America
- Caribbean
- resource nationalism
- public accountability
- policy design framework
- ontology
- methodology
- comparative policy analysis
- critical realism
- multi-methods
- Bayes
- congruence analysis
- process tracing
- case study
- case selection
- causal mechanism
- Venezuela
- policy instrument
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Cecilia Medrano Caviedes is an analytical economist with a multidisciplinary background. Her research interests include the political economy of natural resources and the governance of extractive industries. She has been a consultant for the Natural Resource Governance Institute, Ciudadanos por la Transparencia, the Venezuelan Ministry of Finance, and UNESCO.
Iván Narváez is Professor and Researcher at FLACSO, Ecuador. He graduated from the University Simon Bolivar, Ecuador, where he specialized in collective indigenous rights and comparative constitutional law. He has been Director of the Environmental Protection Office at Petroecuador and has published extensively about social and environmental issues related to oil activities in the Amazon region.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Politics of Public Accountability
Book Subtitle: Policy Design in Latin American Oil Exporting Countries
Authors: Guillaume Fontaine, Cecilia Medrano Caviedes, Iván Narváez
Series Title: International Series on Public Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28995-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28994-2Published: 26 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28997-3Published: 26 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-28995-9Published: 13 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2524-7301
Series E-ISSN: 2524-731X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 227
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Policy, Latin American Politics, Comparative Politics, Political Leadership, Governance and Government, Fossil Fuels (incl. Carbon Capture)