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State Building in Boom Times - Commodities and Coalitions in Latin America and Africa (Hardcover)
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State Building in Boom Times - Commodities and Coalitions in Latin America and Africa (Hardcover)
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State Building in Boom Times argues that commodity booms and
coalitional politics are central to understanding the state
building variation within and across Latin America and Africa. It
shows how resource booms can trigger the provision of new public
goods and institutional strengthening and thus help countries
expand their state capacity. But these possibilities hinge on
coalitional politics, as seen through six cases. Countries ruled by
export-oriented coalitions (Argentina, Chile, and Mauritius)
expanded their state capacity as a direct result of commodity
booms. But countries in which exporters were politically
marginalized (Colombia, Ghana, and Nigeria) missed analogous state
building opportunities because ruling coalitions preyed upon export
wealth, rather than promoting export interests via state building.
The coalitional basis of these divergent outcomes suggests that,
contrary to the prevailing belief in a resource curse, natural
resource wealth does not necessarily dispose countries to low state
capacity. Instead, export-oriented coalitions can harness boom
times for developmental gains, even in the context of weak
institutions. This finding warrants reappraising some widespread
presumptions about the relationship between resource wealth and
state building, as well as the public policies that are commonly
proposed for developing countries to manage their natural resource
wealth.
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