Title: STATES AND DEVELOPMENT: HISTORICAL ANTECEDENTS OF STAGNATION AND ADVANCE; ED. BY MATTHEW LANGE
Description: This important book explores the contribution states can make to overcoming collective action problems and create collective goods favorable to social, economic, and political development. It examines how state-society relations as well as features of state structure shape the conditions under which states seek to advance development and the conditions that make success more or less likely. And it offers empirical evidence showing that historical state structures have had lasting effects even on today's development. Particular focus is given to bureaucratic oversight, market functioning, and the assertion of democratic demands discipline state actions and contribute to state effectiveness. These propositions and the social mechanisms underlying them are examined in comparative historical and cross-national statistical analyses.
Subjects: Comparative government, Political development, Congresses, Nationalism, Economic development, The State, Developing countries, politics and government, Developing countries, economic policy, International relations, Political science & theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Essays, Government, General, National, Reference, Politics and Government, Economische ontwikkeling, Politieke ontwikkeling, Staat (politicologie)