[PDF] Decadent Developmentalism eBook

Author : Matthew M. Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 35,97 MB
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108904572

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Brazil features regularly in global comparisons of large developing economies. Yet since the 1980s, the country has been caught in a low-level equilibrium, marked by lackluster growth and destructive inequality. One cause is the country's enduring commitment to a set of ideas and institutions labelled developmentalism. This book argues that developmentalism has endured, despite hyperactive reform, because institutional complementarities across economic and political spheres sustain and drive key actors and strategies that are individually advantageous, but collectively suboptimal. Although there has been incremental evolution in some institutions, complementarities across institutions sustain a pattern of 'decadent developmentalism' that swamps systemic change. Breaking new ground, Taylor shows how macroeconomic and microeconomic institutions are tightly interwoven with patterns of executive-legislative relations, bureaucratic autonomy, and oversight. His analysis of institutional complementarities across these five dimensions is relevant not only to Brazil but also to the broader study of comparative political economy.

Author : Matthew M. Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 37,6 MB
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108842283

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Complementarities between political and economic institutions have kept Brazil in a low-level economic equilibrium since 1985.

Author : Ben Ross Schneider
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 28,7 MB
Release : 2013-09-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107041635

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This book presents a model based on the varieties of capitalism literature that accomplished two things: (1) it describes the state and unique characteristics of Latin American capitalism in the 1990s and 2000s -- what the author called "hierarchical capitalism"; and (2) it explains the political conditions and actor incentives that make hierarchical capitalisms persist over time.

Author : Simona Piattoni
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,5 MB
Release : 2001-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521804776

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This book charts the evolution of clientelist practices in several western European countries. Through the historical and comparative analysis of countries as diverse as Sweden and Greece, England and Spain, France and Italy, Iceland and the Netherlands, the authors study both the "supply-side" and the "demand-side" of clientelism. This approach contends that clientelism is a particular mix of particularism and universalism, in which interests are aggregated at the level of the individual and his family "particularism," but in which all interests can potentially find expression and accommodation in "universalism."

Author : Murray J. Horn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 13,28 MB
Release : 1995-11-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521484367

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This book applies the basic ideas and models of economics to develop a single transactions framework to explain the key institutional arrangements across the whole range of public sector organization: the regulatory commission, the executive tax-financed bureau, and the state-owned enterprise. This book also explores the link between agency form and administrative function, agency independence from the legislature, the rights extended to private interests to influence administrative decision making, the role of civil service arrangements that are so often seen as simply frustrating efficiency and responsiveness, and the boundary between public and private sectors. This book should be of value to those with a practical interest in public administration as well as students of political science, public administration, economics, and public policy.

Author : Prakash Kashwan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,63 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0190637382

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Democracy in the Woods examines the trajectories of forest and land rights in India, Tanzania, and Mexico to explain how societies negotiate the tensions between environmental protection and social justice. It shows that the social consequences of environmental protection depend, almost entirely, on political intermediation of competing claims to environmental resources.

Author : Barbara Bruns
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 30,71 MB
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1464801525

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This book analyzes teacher quality in Latin America and the Caribbean, which is the key to faster education progress. Based on new research in 15,000 classrooms in seven different countries, it documents the sources of low teacher quality and distills the global evidence on practical policies that can help the region produce "great teachers."

Author : Adam Przeworski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,14 MB
Release : 1999-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521646161

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6 Party Government and Responsiveness: James A. Stimson

Author : Linda Weiss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 32,20 MB
Release : 2003-02-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521525381

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The growing interconnectedness of national economies and an expanding awareness of global interdependence in the 1990s have generated lively debate over the future of national governance. In a world of mobile capital, are states vital to the social and economic wellbeing of their citizens? A number of changes in the state's domestic and international environment - ranging from regulatory reforms and welfare state restructuring to the proliferation of intergovernmental agreements - have promoted the view that globalisation has a negative impact, compromising state capacities to govern domestically. This book challenges the 'constraints thesis'. Covering vital areas of state activity (welfare, taxation, industrial strategy, and regulatory reform), the contributors focus on a range of issues (finance, trade, technology) faced by both developed and developing countries. The contributors argue that globalisation can enable as well as constrain, and they seek to specify the institutional conditions which sharpen or neutralise the pressures of interdependence.

Author : Todd A. Henry
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,84 MB
Release : 2020-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1478003367

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Since the end of the nineteenth century, the Korean people have faced successive waves of foreign domination, authoritarian regimes, forced dispersal, and divided development. Throughout these turbulent times, “queer” Koreans were ignored, minimized, and erased in narratives of their modern nation, East Asia, and the wider world. This interdisciplinary volume challenges such marginalization through critical analyses of non-normative sexuality and gender variance. Considering both personal and collective forces, contributors extend individualized notions of queer neoliberalism beyond those typically set in Western queer theory. Along the way, they recount a range of illuminating topics, from shamanic rituals during the colonial era and B-grade comedy films under Cold War dictatorship to toxic masculinity in today’s South Korean military and transgender confrontations with the resident registration system. More broadly, Queer Korea offers readers new ways of understanding the limits and possibilities of human liberation under exclusionary conditions of modernity in Asia and beyond. Contributors. Pei Jean Chen, John (Song Pae) Cho, Chung-kang Kim, Timothy Gitzen, Todd A. Henry, Merose Hwang, Ruin, Layoung Shin, Shin-ae Ha, John Whittier Treat