Latin America is currently caught in a Middle-Quality Institutional trap, combining flawed democracies and low-to-medium Capacity States.
Thus, the starting point of political developments is less important than whether the State-Democracy relationship is a virtu.
States can make democracy, but so too can Democracy make States.
Yet, contrary to conventional wisdom, the sequence of development - Latin America has democratized before building capable States - does not explain the region\'s quandary.
Latin America is currently caught in a Middle-Quality Institutional trap, combining flawed democracies and low-to-medium Capacity States