Latin American state building in comparative perspective : social foundations of institutional order / / Marcus J. Kurtz.
"Provides an account of long-run institutional development in Latin America that emphasizes the social and political foundations of state-building processes"--
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | x, 275 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 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.