Improving Access and Quality of Public Services in Latin America

1. Building a Culture of Accountability in Service Delivery: Conclusions from the GDN Project on Varieties of Governance and Service Delivery
Guillermo Perry, Ramona Angelescu Naqvi

2. Markets and Hierarchies in Public Services: Incentives, Institutions, and Politics
Armando Castelar Pinheiro, Ben Ross Schneider

3. Decentralization, Fiscal Effort, and Social Progress in Colombia at the Municipal Level, 1994–2009: Why Does National Politics Matter?
Fabio Sánchez Torres, Mónica Pachón

4. Does Participatory Budgeting have an Effect on the Quality of Public Services? The Case of Peru’s Water and Sanitation Sector
Miguel Jaramillo, Lorena Alcázar

5. Understanding the Effects of Educational Governance in Chile and Uruguay
Denise Vaillant, Maria Ester Mancebo, Cecilia Llambí, Gabriela Gonzalez, Leticia Piñeyro

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Latin American Politics, Public Policy, Development Economics, Political Economy, Public Administration, Social Policy