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.
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' 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, 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, Journal of Latin American Studies
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Examines how Latin American countries and Spain tried to build modern and efficient state institutions for more than a century - without much success.
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1 Republics of the Possible: State Building in Latin America and Spain |
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2 The Construction of National States in Latin America, 1820-1890 |
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3 State Building in Western Europe and the Americas in the Long Nineteenth Century: Some Preliminary Considerations |
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PART II TERRITORIAL AND ECONOMIC POWER |
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4 The State and Development under the Brazilian Monarchy, 1822-1889 |
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5 The Brazilian Federal State in the Old Republic (1889-1930): Did Regime Change Make a Difference? |
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6 The Mexican State, Porfirian and Revolutionary, 1876-1930 |
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7 Nicaragua: The Difficult Creation of a Sovereign State |
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8 Friends' Tax: Patronage, Fiscality, and State Building in Argentina and Spain |
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PART III INFRASTRUCTURAL POWER |
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9 Ideological Pragmatism and Nonpartisan Expertise in Nineteenth-Century Chile: Andres Bello's Contribution to State and Nation Building |
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10 Militarization without Bureaucratization in Central America |
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11 Between Empleomania and the Common Good: Expert Bureaucracies in Argentina (1870-1930) |
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12 Elite Preferences, Administrative Institutions, and Educational Development during Peru's Aristocratic Republic (1895-1919) |
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PART IV SYMBOLIC POWER AND LEGITIMACY |
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13 Liberalism in the Spanish American World, 1808-1825 |
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14 Visions of the National: Natural Endowments, Futures, and the Evils of Men |
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15 Spanish National Identity in the Age of Nationalisms |
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16 Census Taking and Nation Making in Nineteenth-Century Latin America |
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17 Citizens before the Law: The Role of Courts in Postindependence State Building in Spanish America |
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18 Envisioning the Nation: The Mid-Nineteenth-Century Colombian Chorographic Commission |
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19 Paper Leviathans: Historical Legacies and State Strength in Contemporary Latin America and Spain |
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| Bibliography |
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Miguel A. Centeno is Chair of the Sociology Department and Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University. He has published many articles, chapters and books, the most recent of which are Global Capitalism (2010) and Discrimination in an Unequal World (2010). He has served as the founding director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and as master of Wilson College. Centeno has been a Fulbright scholar in Russia and Mexico. He has also been a visiting professor in Buenos Aires, Seoul and Spain. In 1997 he was awarded the Presidential Teaching Prize at Princeton University. Agustin E. Ferraro is Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Salamanca, Spain. He was visiting professor at Princeton University for the Spring Term 2011. He won the 2009 award of the Spanish National Institute for Public Administration for his research on state reforms and public policy in Latin America. As a Humboldt Scholar from 2001 to 2003, he worked at the Institute for Latin American Studies in Hamburg and at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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