State Building in Latin America

ISBN-13: 9781107518407 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 324 str.

Hillel David Soifer

Opis

State Building in Latin America explores why some countries in the region developed effective governance while others did not.

Recenzje

'Variations in state capacity in Latin America boil down to whether state agents, charged with implementing state policy, are recruited centrally and deployed rather than delegated or recruited among local elites. This, in short, is the argument that Temple University political scientist Hillel David Soifer puts forward in State Building in Latin America, an ambitious, wide-ranging, and well-written book.' Paulo Drinot, Current History

Spis treści

Introduction: the origins of state capacity in Latin America; 1. The emergence of state-building projects; 2. A theory of state-building success and failure; 3. Alternative historical explanations and initial conditions; 4. State projects, institutions, and educational development; 5. Political costs, infrastructural obstacles, and tax state development; 6. Local administration, varieties of conscription, and the development of coercive capacity; 7. Conclusion.