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Legislatures, the judiciary and civil society are important actors in representative democracies.  In what ways and how well do they represent? And how effectively do they carry out their institutional and social roles? Designed to guide the reader through the complexities of the quality of democracy in Latin America, each expert engages in a larger set of theoretical debates about different approaches to representation in each sphere.

Moira B. MacKinnon is a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Inter American Policy and Research at Tulane University. She is a political and historical sociologist whose area of special interest is political institutions in Latin America, in particular Congress and political parties in the South Cone.

Ludovico Feoli is the director of the Center for Inter-American Policy and Research (CIPR) and a Research Associate Professor in the Stone Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of Political Science at Tulane University. His research interests include the political economy of market reforms in Latin America, institutions and institutional change, and the quality of governance.