State Building and Late Development (Hardcover)

Why does state building sometimes promote economic growth and in other cases impede it? Through an analysis of political and economic development in four countries, this book explores the origins of political-economic institutions and the mechanisms connecting them to economic outcomes. The author seeks to extend understanding of the political underpinnings of economic development by examining the origins of political coalitions on which states and their institutions depend. He first provides a political model of institutional change to analyze how elites build either cross-class or narrow coalitions, and he examines how these arrangements shape specific institutions: state-society relations, the nature of bureaucracy, fiscal structures and patterns of economic intervention. He then links these institutions to economic outcomes through a bargaining model to explain why countries such as Korea and Taiwan have more effectively overcome the collective dilemmas that plague economic development than have others such as Turkey and Syria. The latter countries, he shows, lack institutional solutions to the problems that surround productivity growth.

General

Imprint:	Cornell University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	1999
Authors:	David Waldner
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-0-8014-3554-6
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Development studies Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Political economy Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Constitution, government & the state Promotions
LSN:	0-8014-3554-4
Barcode:	9780801435546

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