Abstract

GOMIS-BALESTRERI, Miguel. Governance in Honduras and Paraguay: Public Reform and International Cooperation during Presidential Breakdowns. Pap.polit. [online]. 2016, vol.21, n.1, pp.249-284. ISSN 0122-4409.  https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.papo21-1.ghpr.

From the third wave of democratization in Latin America, presidential breakdowns in the region have occurred in socially opposite contexts. The constitutional mechanisms are different but have offered reduced options for revocation of presidential terms. The last two ruptures of Paraguay and Honduras led to an intense climate of polarization of the internal and external public. Although we know the debates about the legality and the causes, some conditions of such breaks are still to be analyzed. In this article we seek to determine the relationship between international cooperation and public management reforms in the context of presidential rupture in Honduras and Paraguay. The research reviews the sectors, the amounts and dates of international aid in parallel to reforms, in order to defend the thesis that governments after presidential breakdowns tend to use public management reforms through international cooperation to strengthen their own status quo.

Keywords : Honduras; Paraguay; reforms; governance; international cooperation.

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