Marcus J. Kurtz

Latin American State Building in Comparative Perspective (eBook, PDF)

Social Foundations of Institutional Order

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Produktbeschreibung

Latin American State Building in Comparative Perspective provides an account of long-run institutional development in Latin America that emphasizes the social and political foundations of state-building processes. The study argues that societal dynamics have path-dependent consequences at two critical points: the initial consolidation of national institutions in the wake of independence, and at the time when the 'social question' of mass political incorporation forced its way into the national political agenda across the region during the Great Depression. Dynamics set into motion at these points in time have produced widely varying and stable distributions of state capacity in the region. Marcus J. Kurtz tests this argument using structured comparisons of the post-independence political development of Chile, Peru, Argentina and Uruguay.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139602907
• Artikelnr.: 38276693

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.