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
determinant of long-run rates of economic growth. This book argues
that to understand the difficulties and pitfalls of state building
in the contemporary world, it is necessary to analyze previous
efforts to create institutional capacity in conflictive contexts.
It provides a comprehensive analysis of the process of state and
nation building in Latin America and Spain from independence to the
1930s. The book examines how Latin American countries and Spain
tried to build modern and efficient state institutions for more
than a century - without much success. The Spanish and Latin
American experience of the nineteenth century was arguably the
first regional stage on which the organizational and political
dilemmas that still haunt states were faced. This book provides an
unprecedented perspective on the development and contemporary
outcome of those state and nation-building projects.
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