| Description |
xiii, 269 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Political evolution and institutional change |
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Political evolution and institutional change.
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| Contents |
1. States and development / Matthew Lange and Dietrich Rueschemeyer -- 2. Harnessing the state : rebalancing the strategies for monitoring and motivation / Peter Evans -- 3. The rule of law and development : a Weberian framework of states and state-society relations / Matthew Lange -- 4. State effectiveness, economic growth, and the age of states / Areendam Chanda and Louis Putterman -- 5. Colonial states and economic development in Spanish America / James Mahoney and Matthias vom Hau -- 6. British colonial state legacies and development trajectories : a statistical analysis of direct and indirect rule / Matthew Lange -- 7. Building states - inherently a long-term process? : an argument from theory / Dietrich Rueschemeyer -- 8. Building states - inherently a long-term process? : an argument from comparative history / Thomas Ertman -- 9. How fast can you build a state? : state building in revolutions / Jaime Becker and Jack A. Goldstone |
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10. State building in Korea : continuity and crisis / Bruce Cumings -- 11. States and development : what insights did we gain? / Matthew Lange and Dietrich Rueschemeyer |
| Notes |
Revisions of papers presented at a one-day conference held in Oct. 2003 at the Watson Institute of International Studies, Brown University |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
State, The -- Congresses.
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Nationalism -- Congresses.
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Economic development -- Congresses.
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Political development -- Congresses.
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Comparative government -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Rueschemeyer, Dietrich.
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Lange, Matthew.
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| LC no. |
2004065496 |
| ISBN |
1403964920 |
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1403964939 paperback |
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