Marcus J. Kurtz

Latin American State Building in Comparative Perspective

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an account of long-run institutional development in Latin America that emphasizes the social and political foundations of state-building processes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 468g
• ISBN-13: 9780521747318
• ISBN-10: 0521747317
• Artikelnr.: 36957863

Autorenporträt

Marcus J. Kurtz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Ohio State University. He is the author of Free Market Democracy and the Chilean and Mexican Countryside (Cambridge, 2004). He has had articles published in the American Journal of Political Science, World Politics, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, International Organization, the Journal of Politics, Politics and Society, Comparative Studies in Society and History, and Theory and Society.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The difficulties of state building; 2. The social foundations of state
building in the contemporary era; 3. State formation in Chile and Peru:
institution building and atrophy in unlikely settings; 4. State formation
in Argentina and Uruguay: agrarian capitalism, elite conflict, and the
construction of cooperation; 5. Divergence reinforced: the timing of
political inclusion and state strength in Chile and Peru; 6. The social
question and the state: mass mobilization, suffrage, and institutional
development in Argentina and Uruguay; 7. Conclusions, implications, and
extensions: social foundations, Germany/Prussia, and the limits of
contemporary state building; Bibliography.