State and nation making in Latin America and Spain : republics of the possible / / edited by Miguel A. Centeno, Agustin E. Ferraro.
"The growth of institutional capacity in the developing world has become a central theme in twenty-first-century social science. Many studies have shown that public institutions are an important (some would argue the most important) determinant of long-run rates of economic growth. This book ar...
Saved in:
| : | |
|---|---|
| TeilnehmendeR: | |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Online Access: | |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 469 p. |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Republics of the possible: state building in Latin America and Spain Miguel Centeno and Agustin Ferraro; 2. The construction of national states, 1820-1890: five cases, multiple variables Frank Safford; 3. State building in Western Europe and the Americas before and in the long nineteenth century: some preliminary considerations Wolfgang Knoebl; 4. The state and development under the Brazilian monarchy: 1822-1889 Jeffrey Needell; 5. The Brazilian federal state in the old republic (1889-1930): did regime change make a difference? Joseph E. Love; 6. The Mexican state, Porfirian and revolutionary (1876-1930) Alan Knight; 7. Nicaragua: the difficult creation of a sovereign state Salvador Marti; 8. Friends' tax. Patronage, fiscality and state building in Argentina and Spain Claudia Herrera and Agustin Ferraro; 9. Ideological pragmatism and non-partisan expertise in nineteenth-century Chile: Andres Bello's contribution to state and nation building Ivan Jaksic; 10. Militarization without bureaucratization in Central America James Mahoney; 11. Between 'Empleomania' and the common good: successful expert bureaucracies in Argentina (1870-1930) Ricardo Salvatore; 12. Elite preferences, administrative institutions, and educational development during Peru's Aristocratic republic (1895-1919) Hillel Soifer; 13. Liberalism in the Iberian world 1808-1825 Roberto Brena; 14. Visions of the national: natural endowments, futures, and the evils of men Fernando Lopez-Alves; 15. Spanish national identity in the age of nationalisms Jose; Alvarez Junco; 16. Census taking and nation making in nineteenth-century Latin America Mara Loveman; 17. Citizens before the law: the role of courts in post-independence state building in Spanish America Sara Chambers; 18. Visualizing the nation: the mid-nineteenth-century Colombian chorographic commission Nancy Applebaum; 19. Paper leviathans. Historical legacies and state strength in contemporary Latin America and Spain Miguel Centeno and Agustin Ferraro.