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The ascendancy of technocratic personnel and their imposition of
neo-liberal economic policies have come to define Latin American
politics in the 1980s and 1990s. This book is the first comparative
analysis of these events and their implications for the future of
democracy on the continent. Individual chapters discuss the rise to
power of these technocrats in Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and
Peru as well as the historical antecedents of expert rule in the
19th and early 20th centuries.
What should states in the developing world do and how should they
do it? How have states in the developing world addressed the
challenges of promoting development, order, and inclusion? States
in the developing world are supposed to build economies, control
violence, and include the population. How they do so depends on
historical origins and context as well as policy decisions. This
volume presents a comprehensive theory of state capacity, what it
consists of, and how it may be measured. With historical empirical
illustrations it suggests that historical origins and political
decisions help drive the capacity of states to meet their goals.
Neoliberalism is often studied as a political ideology, a
government program, and even as a pattern of cultural identities.
However, less attention is paid to the specific institutional
resources employed by neoliberal administrations, which have
resulted in the configuration of a neoliberal state model. This
accessible volume compiles original essays on the neoliberal era in
Latin America and Spain, exploring subjects such as neoliberal
public policies, power strategies, institutional resources, popular
support, and social protest. The book focuses on neoliberalism as a
state model: a configuration of public power designed to implement
radical policy proposals. This is the third volume in the State and
Nation Making in Latin America and Spain series, which aims to
complete and advance research and knowledge about national states
in Latin America and Spain.
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.
What should states in the developing world do and how should they
do it? How have states in the developing world addressed the
challenges of promoting development, order, and inclusion? States
in the developing world are supposed to build economies, control
violence, and include the population. How they do so depends on
historical origins and context as well as policy decisions. This
volume presents a comprehensive theory of state capacity, what it
consists of, and how it may be measured. With historical empirical
illustrations it suggests that historical origins and political
decisions help drive the capacity of states to meet their goals.
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 (some
would argue the most 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 chapters discuss key processes and
challenges of state building. To what extent do historical legacies
determine the capacity and reach of states? What are the obstacles
to and paths toward the effective consolidation of public
authority? How can states best design and create the institutions
meant to provide the basic services now associated with
citizenship? How can we put together notions of community that
include diverse groups and cultures within a single identity, while
also respecting the integrity of particular traditions? 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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