Jerry F. Hough, Robin Grier

The Long Process of Development

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This groundbreaking book examines the history of Spain, England, the United States, and Mexico to explain why development takes centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 460
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 894g
• ISBN-13: 9781107063693
• ISBN-10: 1107063698
• Artikelnr.: 41128470

Autorenporträt

Jerry F. Hough is the James B. Duke Professor of Political Science at Duke University. He has taught at Duke since 1973. He has previously taught at the University of Toronto and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and he has served as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Hough received his PhD from Harvard University in 1961. His research has focused on the Soviet Union, the democratization of Russia and America, and nation building in the United States. He is the author of How the Soviet Union Is Governed; Soviet Leadership in Transition; The Struggle for the Third World; Soviet Debate and American Options; Democratization and Revolution in the USSR, 1985¿1991; The Logic of Economic Reform in Russia; and Changing Party Coalitions: The Mystery of the Red State¿Blue State Alignment.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The collective-action difficulties of creating an effective state
3. The pre-state of England and Spain: the importance of man-made geography
4. The early state in England and Spain
5. The minimally effective state
6. The truly effective state
7. English and Spanish colonial policies
8. The English colonies
9. Colonial Mexico
10. The collective-action problems of the formation of the United States
11. The collective-action problems of the formation of Mexico
12. The implications for development theory.