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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| Summary |
State Building in Latin America explores why some countries in the region developed effective governance while others did not. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Nation-building -- Latin America.
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Nation-building. |
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Latin America. |
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Political development.
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Political development. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Soifer, Hillel David. State building in Latin America 9781107107878 (DLC) 2015004870 (OCoLC)904400080 |
| ISBN |
9781316321072 (electronic book) |
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131632107X (electronic book) |
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9781316257289 (electronic book) |
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1316257282 (electronic book) |
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9781316331118 |
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1316331113 |
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9781107107878 |
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1107107873 |
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9781316334454 |
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1316334457 |
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9781107518407 (paperback) |
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