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State building in Latin America / Hillel David Soifer, Temple University.

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State Building in Latin America explores why some countries in the region developed effective governance while others did not.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Soifer, Hillel David (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Nation-building > Latin America.
Political development.
Nation-building
Political development
Latin America
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Title page
  • Copyright information
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of abbreviations
  • Annual Official Government Publications used, by Library/Archive Location
  • Introduction The Origins of State Capacity in Latin America
  • Two Questions
  • The Emergence of State-Building Projects
  • The Success of State-Building Projects
  • Studying Intra-Regional Variation
  • State Capacity: Concepts and Measures
  • State Capacity in Latin America: Historical Trends
  • Research Design: Thick Measures, Detailed Case Studies
  • Explaining Variation in State Capacity
  • The Emergence of State-Building Projects
  • Theorizing State-Building Failure
  • Applying the Argument
  • 1 The Emergence of State-Building Projects
  • Geography and State Development
  • Size
  • Terrain
  • Urban Primacy, Regional Salience, and State Development
  • Measurement
  • Urban Primacy in Our Cases
  • Chile
  • Mexico
  • Peru
  • Colombia
  • Divergent Preferences across Colombia's Regions
  • Self-Sufficient Regions and the Locus of Development Efforts in Colombia
  • The Ideational Foundations of State-Building Projects
  • The Varied Content of Mid-Century Liberalism
  • The State and Progress in Chile
  • "Order" and "Progress" in Mexico
  • The State and "Progress" in Peru
  • Colombia's Anti-Statist Consensus
  • Conclusion
  • 2 A Theory of State-Building Success and Failure
  • Administrative Institutions and the Outcomes of State-Building Efforts
  • Causal Mechanisms
  • Income and the Dynamics of Collaboration
  • Legitimacy, Local Power, and Shared Interests
  • Scoring Cases on the Forms of Rule
  • Decree Analysis
  • Evidence from Political Biographies
  • Qualitative Evidence
  • The Public Administration of State Building
  • Patrimonialism
  • Overlapping Bureaucratic Networks
  • Technical Expertise
  • Customary Law
  • Conclusion.
  • 3 Alternative Historical Explanations and Initial Conditions
  • Colonial Legacies
  • Mechanisms of Colonial Impact
  • The Bourbon Reforms: State Power at the Twilight of Colonial Rule
  • Chile
  • Colombia
  • Peru
  • Mexico
  • Foundational Wars, New States?
  • Post-Independence Crisis
  • Education
  • Chile
  • Colombia
  • Mexico
  • Peru
  • Taxation
  • Chile
  • Colombia
  • Mexico
  • Peru
  • Monopoly of Force
  • Chile
  • Colombia
  • Mexico
  • Peru
  • Explaining State Administrative Appointment Practices
  • Perceived Threats to Systemic Stability
  • Chile
  • Mexico
  • Peru
  • The Place of Traditional Authority in National Projects
  • Anti-Traditional Ideology in Liberal Mexico (1857-1876)
  • The Absence of Ideology in Porfirian Mexico (1877-1910)
  • Accomodationist Ideology in Guano-Era Peru (1845-1875)
  • Anti-Traditional Ideology in Postwar Peru (1895-1919)
  • The Currency of Patronage
  • Political and Federal Patronage in Mexico
  • Administrative Patronage in Peru
  • Conclusion
  • 4 State Projects, Institutions, and Educational Development
  • Educational Development and State Power: Dimensions and Indicators
  • Indicators of Primary Schooling Provision
  • Indicators of Control over Public Primary Schooling
  • Comparative Development
  • Provision
  • Systematization
  • Inspection
  • Lack of Educational Initiative in Colombia
  • A Structural Alternative: Inequality and Education Development
  • Deployed Rule and State Power: The Development of School Inspection in Chile
  • Institutional Change and Education Development in Peru
  • Explaining Cross-State Divergence in Mexican Education
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Sonora
  • Michoacán
  • Conclusion
  • 5 Political Costs, Infrastructural Obstacles, and Tax State Development
  • Operationalizing Tax State Development
  • Tax Types
  • Tax Burden
  • Comparative Development
  • Tax Types
  • Chile
  • Peru
  • Colombia.
  • Mexico
  • Tax Burden
  • Chile
  • Peru
  • Colombia
  • Mexico
  • Explaining Variation in Tax Capacity
  • Deciding to Tax: Resource Rents and Political Costs
  • Implementing Taxation: Forms of Rule and Effective Administration
  • Peru: Local State Agents and the Failure to Tax after the Guano Boom
  • Political Costs
  • Failure of the Head Tax
  • Resort to Consumption Taxes
  • Tax Reform Efforts
  • Conclusion
  • Chile: Deployed Rule and the Recovery of Taxation after the Nitrate Boom
  • Decentralization and Municipal Taxation
  • Deployed Rule and the Continuity of State Extractive Capacity
  • Pressure on the National Government
  • Intervention at the Municipal Level
  • The End of the Nitrate Boom and the Leap in Internal Taxation
  • Federalism and Tax State Development in Colombia and Mexico
  • Laissez-Faire Liberalism and Reluctance to Tax in Colombia
  • Mexico: Deployed Rule and the Expansion of Federal Taxation
  • Administrative Reforms of the Timbre
  • Surveying Vacant Land
  • The Federal Government and Mexico's States
  • Conclusion
  • 6 Local Administration, Varieties of Conscription, and the Development of Coercive Capacity
  • War and the State: Limits of the "Bellic" Approach
  • The Capacity to Mobilize
  • Chile
  • Peru
  • Colombia
  • Mexico
  • Local Officials and Military Recruitment
  • Deployed Rule, Legal-Formal Conscription, and Chilean Military Effectiveness
  • Mexico: Voluntary Enlistment and Legalistic Recruitment
  • Delegated Rule and Peruvian Military Weakness
  • The Absence of Systematic Recruitment Efforts in Colombia
  • Conclusion
  • Conclusion
  • The Emergence and Outcomes of State-Building Efforts
  • Alternative Explanations
  • A Broader Perspective on Latin American State Building
  • Urban Primacy and the Origins of State-Building Projects
  • High Primacy, Concerted State-Building Efforts Emerge
  • Argentina
  • Uruguay.
  • Low Primacy, No State-Building Efforts Emerge
  • Bolivia
  • Ecuador
  • Mis-Predicted Cases
  • Paraguay
  • Venezuela
  • Central America
  • Forms of Rule and the Outcomes of State-Building Efforts
  • Argentina 1862-1916
  • The End of the Liberal Era
  • Theorizing State Building
  • Bringing Ideas into State Development
  • Separating Emergence and Success
  • Causal Importance
  • Historical State Building and Contemporary "Nation Building"
  • Works Cited
  • Index.

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