State building in boom times : commodities and coalitions in Latin America and Africa / Ryan Saylor.

Saylor argues that commodity booms and coalitional politics are central to understanding the state building variation within and across Latin America and Africa. He shows how resource booms can trigger the provision of new public goods and institutional strengthening and thus help countries expand t...

Full description

Bibliographic Details

Online Access:	Full Text (via Oxford Scholarship Online)
Main Author:	Saylor, Ryan (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Subjects:	Nation-building > Latin America. Nation-building > Africa. Coalitions > Latin America. Coalitions > Africa. Commercial products > Latin America. Commercial products > Africa.