Studies In Comparative International Development articles from January 1 2001

Studies In Comparative International Development archives from January 1 2001

Globalization and Government Spending around the World.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... 1. Introduction This article explores the two major contending perspectives on the effects of the international integration of markets for goods, services, and capital on national economic policy choices. The common metaphor of a...

Explaining Ethnic Autonomy Regimes in Latin America [1].
January 1, 2001... Through a systematic examination of nine cases, the author identifies factors that enabled indigenous movements in five Latin American countries to secure formal recognition of politico-territorial autonomy regimes. All nine cases occurred...

Incompetence, Noise, and Fear in Central-Local Relations in China.(governmental effectiveness)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... In this article, I analyze how the structure of the Chinese state affects the probability that local cadres will comply with the directives of the center. Because the Chinese state consists of a five-level hierarchy of dyadic principal-agent...

Associations in the Embrace of an Authoritarian State: State Domination of Society? [1].
January 1, 2001... According to conventional wisdom, associations that are closely linked with and penetrated by an authoritarian state are significant chiefly as symbols of state domination of society. Yet a review of empirical evidence suggests that the...

China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience & The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World.(Review)
January 1, 2001... R. Bin Wong, China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997). Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World (Princeton:...

Institutional Design in Post-Communist Societies: Rebuilding the Ship at Sea & Post-Communist Party Systems: Competition, Representation, and Inter-Party Cooperation.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Claus Offe, Jon Elster, and Ulrich Preuss, Institutional Design in Post-Communist Societies: Rebuilding the Ship at Sea (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998). Herbert Kitschelt, Zdenka Mansfeldova, Radoslaw Markowski and Gabor...

Brokers and Bureaucrats Building Market Institutions in Russia.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Timothy Frye, Brokers and Bureaucrats Building Market Institutions in Russia (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2000). Even when states cannot enforce private agreements, Timothy Frye argues in this excellent book, they can...

Russia Liberal Project: State-Society Relations in the Transition from Communism.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Marcia A. Weigle, Russia Liberal Project: State-Society Relations in the Transition from Communism (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000). In this book, Marcia Weigle seeks to explain why it is that Russian civil...