Studies In Comparative International Development articles from September 1998

Studies In Comparative International Development archives from September 1998

Macroeconomic Conditions and Political Instability: An Empirical Analysis.
September 22, 1998... This article uses statistical methods to examine the relationship between two key macroeconomic indicators--inflation and economic growth--and four measures of political instability--peaceful unrest, violent unrest, coups d'etat, and changes...

Canons of Research Design in Qualitative Analysis.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... After a wave of publications on comparative methodology in the late 1960s to mid-1970s [1] and the subsequent abatement of discussion, we are now again in a period of great interest in issues pertaining to qualitative and small-N research....

Learning, Multiple Equilibria, and the State: Agriculture's Role.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... This article will argue that the state must learn to pursue productivity enhancing rather than predatory policies if rapid long-run development is to occur in poor countries. These productivity enhancing strategies will most likely involve...

Opening the Mexican Political System: Public Opinion and the Elections of 1994 and 1997.
September 22, 1998... Over the past decade, the proliferation of election surveys has worked to undergird the electoral system in Mexico and to make electoral fraud more difficult. In the presidential elections of 1994, significant controversies arose as to survey...

The Tension Between Despotic and Infrastructural Power: The Military and the Political Class in Nigeria, 1985-1993.
September 22, 1998... In his extended study, The Sources of Social Power, Michael Mann suggests a distinction between despotic and infrastuctural power. Despotic power refers to the repressive capacities of a state, while infrastructural power refers to its...

Cuba's Second Economy: From Behind the Scene to Center Stage.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Cuba's Second Economy: From Behind the Scene to Center Stage. Jorge Perez- Lopez, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1995. 221 pages. The author of this volume is perhaps the most prolific writer on the Cuban economy in the last...

Governing the Atom: The Politics of Risk.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Governing the Atom: The Politics of Risk. Edited by John Byrne & Steven M. Hoffman. New Brunswick, Transaction Publishers, 1996. It is conventional wisdom these days that commercial nuclear power in the United States is in decline and...

Central America: Fragile Transition.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Central America: Fragile Transition. Edited by Rachel Sieder. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. xvii + 298 pages. Cloth $65.00 The Guatemalan Peace Accord, signed in December, 1996 between the Guatemalan government and the guerrillas,...

Bigger Economies, Smaller Governments: Privatization in Latin America.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Bigger Economies, Smaller Governments: Privatization in Latin America. Edited by William Glade with Rossana Corona. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996. viii + 407 pages. Cloth. When privatization programs were first initiated in...