Studies In Comparative International Development articles from June 1998

Studies In Comparative International Development archives from June 1998

The Politics of Neoliberal Economic Reform in South America, 1980-1994.
June 22, 1998... Karen L. Remmer is Professor of Political Science at the University of New Mexico and Associate Editor of the Latin American Research Review. She has written extensively on questions of regime change and public policy in Latin America. Her...

Quantitative Cross-National Studies of Economic Development: A Comparison of the Economics and Sociology Literatures.
June 22, 1998... Angela Martin Crowly is at the Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92717. James Rauch is at the department of Economics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093. Susanne...

Latin American Environmentalism: Comparative Views.
June 22, 1998... Corresponding addresses for the six authors are: Catherine Christen, Smithsonian Institution, MRC 429, Washington, D.C. 20560. Selene Herculano, Departamento de Sociologia, Universidade Federal Fluminense, UFF/ICHF/GSO, Campus do Gragoata,...

Citizen Response to Regional Integration in the Americas: The Cases of Costa Rica and El Salvador.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 1998... Charles L. Davis is associate professor of political science at the University of Kentucky. His interests are Latin American politics and comparative political behavior. Matthew J. Gabel is assistant professor of political science at the...

The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times.(Review)
June 22, 1998... Drawing from the interpretative scheme in Fernand Braudel's trilogy, Civilization and Capitalism, Arrighi sets forth an interpretative scheme showing that finance capital is not a particular stage of world capitalism nor even its highest...

World Economic Primacy, 1500-1990.(Review)
June 22, 1998... This fascinating volume discusses the mechanisms underlying factors associated with the rise of nations (or city-states) to world economic primacy and those underlying the loss of that primacy. Its focus is Europe and the European colonies...

Rivers of Blood: A Comparative Study of Government Massacres.(Review)
June 22, 1998... This book addresses an important and neglected area of comparative politics: why some states commit human rights violations against their populations. Much of the previous work in this area has focused on individual cases of genocide, the...

Changing the Rules: The Politics of Liberalization and the Urban Informal Economy in Tanzania.(Review)
June 22, 1998... For nearly two decades, our profession's theoretical understanding of African political economy has been dominated by Robert Bates's classic work, Markets and States in Tropical Africa (California Press, 1981). It provided a compelling...

Development Strategies in Africa: Current Economic, Socio-Political, and Institutional Trends and Issues.(Review)
June 22, 1998... Agenda for Africa's Economic Renewal. Benno Ndulu, Nicholas van de Walle, and contributors. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1996. ix + 246 pages. Cloth $32.95. These two books are so different, despite their apparently related titles,...

Democracy, Security, and Development in India.(Review)
June 22, 1998... Every conceivable form of conflict has stalked India since its emergence from the breakup of the British Indian empire in 1947. The country has faced external aggression from two of its neighbors, Pakistan (in 1947-48, 1965, and 1971) and the...

The Economy of Turkey Since Liberalization.(Review)
June 22, 1998... During the single-party period in Turkey (1923-1945), the government maintained tight control over the economy, especially during the Second World War. With the victory of the Allies and the growing influence of the United States, the Turkish...

Towards Illiberal Democracy in Pacific Asia.(Review)
June 22, 1998... There are many positive features of this multi-authored volume on the rapidly growing economies of Asia. Daniel A. Bell, David Brown, Kanishka Jayasuriya, and David Martin Jones have questioned the conventional wisdom that correlates...

Post-Marcos Politics: A Geographical and Statistical Analysis of the 1992 Presidential Election.(Review)
June 22, 1998... This book may well be the definitive evaluation of the unusually complicated 1992 Philippine presidential election, in which no fewer than seven candidates gained significant support from the voters. The author has concentrated on Philippine...