Contributions

  • Lange, Matthew - Contributor
  • Rueschemeyer, Dietrich - Contributor

Publication

2005 - Palgrave Macmillan, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

67,250 words, Guess

Page Count

269 pages

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Classifications

  • LCCJA77 .S73 2005

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.

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Series Statement

  • Political evolution and institutional change

Other Editions

  • States and development: historical antecedents of stagnation and advancePalgrave Macmillan2005-01-01

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