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Author: Jefferey M. Sellers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-03-05
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 1108427782
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores ways to make democracy work better, with particular focus on the integral role of local institutions.
Author: Derica Lambrechts
Publisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Published: 2017-07-31
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 1928357342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book makes an important original conceptual and theoretical contribution to our understanding of modern state development, the role of the state, and the South African transition to democracy. Its focus on related concepts such as state capacity, political trust and tolerance adds to insights on the dynamics of political and democratic transitions. Furthermore, the selected focus areas as well as the comparative approach add new insights into the peculiarities of the South African transition, state development, state capacity and state institutions. Its focus on societal dynamics and state-society relations is a significant contribution.
Author: Christopher Pierson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-07-31
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 1134331347
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe modern state is hugely important in our everyday lives. It takes nearly half our income in taxes. It registers our births, marriages and deaths. It educates our children and pays our pensions. It has a unique power to compel, in some cases exercising the ultimate sanction of preserving life or ordering death. Yet most of us would struggle to say exactly what the state is. The Modern State offers a clear, comprehensive and provoking introduction to one of the most important phenomena of contemporary life. Topics covered include: * the nation state and its historical context * state and economy * state and societies * state and citizens * international relations * the future of the state
Author: Mark Dincecco
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-10-26
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1108335985
DOWNLOAD EBOOKState capacity - the government's ability to accomplish its intended policy goals - plays an important role in market-oriented economic development today. Yet state capacity improvements are often difficult to achieve. This Element analyzes the historical origins of state capacity. It evaluates long-run state development in Western Europe - the birthplace of both the modern state and modern economic growth - with a focus on three key inflection points: the rise of the city-state, the nation-state, and the welfare state. This Element develops a conceptual framework regarding the basic political conditions that enable the state to take effective policy actions. This framework highlights the government's challenge to exert proper authority over both its citizenry and itself. It concludes by analyzing the European state development process relative to other world regions. This analysis characterizes the basic historical features that helped make Western Europe different. By taking a long-run approach, it provides a new perspective on the deep-rooted relationship between state capacity and economic development.
Author: Miguel A. Centeno
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-02-27
Total Pages: 493
ISBN-13: 1107158494
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of how states address the often conflicting challenges of development, order, and inclusion.
Author: Hillel David Soifer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-06-09
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1316301036
DOWNLOAD EBOOKState Building in Latin America diverges from existing scholarship in developing explanations both for why state-building efforts in the region emerged and for their success or failure. First, Latin American state leaders chose to attempt concerted state-building only where they saw it as the means to political order and economic development. Fragmented regionalism led to the adoption of more laissez-faire ideas and the rejection of state-building. With dominant urban centers, developmentalist ideas and state-building efforts took hold, but not all state-building projects succeeded. The second plank of the book's argument centers on strategies of bureaucratic appointment to explain this variation. Filling administrative ranks with local elites caused even concerted state-building efforts to flounder, while appointing outsiders to serve as administrators underpinned success. Relying on extensive archival evidence, the book traces how these factors shaped the differential development of education, taxation, and conscription in Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru.
Author: Martin Lodge
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 0198716362
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGovernance Challenges and Innovations examines the capacity of contemporary governments to act upon and address the pressing problems of our time. It highlights four basic administrative capacities that matter for governance and considers the way in which states have addressed particular governance challenges.
Author: Francis Fukuyama
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 2011-05-12
Total Pages: 529
ISBN-13: 1847652816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNations are not trapped by their pasts, but events that happened hundreds or even thousands of years ago continue to exert huge influence on present-day politics. If we are to understand the politics that we now take for granted, we need to understand its origins. Francis Fukuyama examines the paths that different societies have taken to reach their current forms of political order. This book starts with the very beginning of mankind and comes right up to the eve of the French and American revolutions, spanning such diverse disciplines as economics, anthropology and geography. The Origins of Political Order is a magisterial study on the emergence of mankind as a political animal, by one of the most eminent political thinkers writing today.
Author: Daron Acemoglu
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 594
ISBN-13: 0735224382
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow does history end? -- The Red Queen -- Will to power -- Economics outside the corridor -- Allegory of good government -- The European scissors -- Mandate of Heaven -- Broken Red Queen -- Devil in the details -- What's the matter with Ferguson? -- The paper leviathan -- Wahhab's children -- Red Queen out of control -- Into the corridor -- Living with the leviathan.
Author: Ewout Frankema
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1108494269
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow colonial governments in Asia and Africa financed their activities and why fiscal systems varied across colonies reveals the nature and long-term effects of colonial rule.
