Efforts by governments to promote sustained domestic economic
development have been mixed. Success depends on many factors
including location, geography, climate, external competition, human
resources, natural resources, timing, political and governmental
institutions, government capacity, implementation, leadership,
values-and maybe luck. This complexity means that while development
experts can often identify ingredients for success, few can
prescribe the specific mix needed by a particular state to achieve
sustained development over the long term. In Building Democracy and
International Governance, author George M. Guess uses both case
studies and careful data analysis to argue that federalist
democracy may just be the most responsive, authoritative, and
flexible system for nation building, and that there is value in
confronting the challenges that lie in exporting federalist
democracy abroad. Guess demonstrates the ways in which federation
structures provide positive redundancy against failures,
flexibility to change course and implement programs and policies,
and state legitimacy and strength. Examining twelve wealthy and
developing countries from five regions, representing democratic and
authoritarian government structures, confederations, and
federations, this book will be of interest to those teaching
graduate and undergraduate courses in Political Development,
Democratization, Federalism, and Comparative Political Economy.
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