Marina Arbetman, Jacek Kugler

Political Capacity And Economic Behavior

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Given today's heightened competition between national economies in the global marketplace, many have come to believe that government intervention is needed in order for a country to maximize its economic well-being. But to what extent can even the most capable government act to attract investment and enhance economic growth without creating or exacerbating conflicts in society-especially when unpopular measures, such as those aimed at controlling inflation and population growth, must be implemented? This timely book by an international team of economists and political scientists tackles that question head on. The contributors draw on theory and empirical data to provide a framework for measuring governments' ability to gather material resources and mobilize populations. They analyze a variety of policy choices made in the United States and in other nations arond the world during the past fifty years, showing how states can increase their political capacity and thereby reduce economic transaction costs and domestic resistance to government goals.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9780813333649
• ISBN-10: 0813333644
• Artikelnr.: 22223989

Autorenporträt

Marina Arbetman

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
The Concept of Political Capacity
Relative Political Capacity: Political Extraction and Political Reach
Theoretical Link of Political Capacity to Development
Economic Applications
Political Capacity and Economic Determinants of Inflation
Political Capacity and the Use of Seigniorage
Political Capacity and Private Investment
Political Capacity and Economic Growth
Political Capacity, Macroeconomic Factors, and Capital Flows
Political Capacity and Black Market Premiums
Political Applications
Political Capacity and Government Resource Transfers
Political Capacity and Demographic Change
Political Capacity and Violence
Political Capacity, Growth, and Distributive Commitments
Extending Political Capacity
Political Capacity and the Economic Frontier
New Estimates of Political Capacity
Alternative Approaches to Estimating Political Capacity
The Unfinished Agenda