Do the Poor Count?

Contents

List of Tables

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

1. Institutions, Poverty, and Democratic Consolidation

2. Theorizing Representation and Accountability in a Context of Poverty

3. Institutions and Poor People’s Confidence in Their Legislature

4. Evolution of Institutions: An Overview of Honduras’s Political History

5. Institutions and Incentives in Honduras’s Third-Wave Democracy

6. Institutions, Incentives, and Roles: Legislators’ Identities About Their Job

7. Roles, Attitudes, and Actions: Does Anyone Represent Poor People?

8. Do the Poor Count in Latin American Democracies?

Appendix: Coding Informal Roles

References

Index

“Do the Poor Count? offers a novel and interesting explanation for why the poor often fail to get what they want through democratic politics. It helps explain how democracy really works.”

—Barbara Geddes, UCLA