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  3. State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
February 2013
Print publication year:
2013
Online ISBN:
9781139342667
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139342667
Subjects:
Area Studies, Latin American Studies, Political Sociology, Politics and International Relations, Latin American Government, Politics and Policy, Sociology
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Book description

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.

Reviews

'… this is a quite outstanding volume of comparative historical sociology on the Hispanic world … This suggestive and intellectually refreshing quality owes much to the care with which the editors have designed a volume that plainly derives for an extended period of collaboration.'

James Dunkerley Source: Journal of Global Faultlines

'The great strength of this book, which will make people return to it again and again, lies in this integrated approach. The volume brings together a variety of work from diverse disciplinary and/or country study fields, making it an invaluable portal for historians, political scientists and sociologists alike to access each others’ research on state- and nation-making in Latin America.'

Nicola Miller Source: Journal of Latin American Studies

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