In the early 2000s, the Inter-American Development Bank conducted a series of analyses evaluating the role of key actors in the public policymaking process in eight Latin American countries — Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay and Venezuela.

This working paper reviews the degree to which these eight country-level analyses still accurately portray the actors and their present-day roles in the policymaking process: http://bit.ly/2muoR2P.