{"product_id":"oxford-handbook-of-the-politics-of-development-9780199845156","title":"Oxford Handbook of the Politics of Development","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn many discussions of nations'' development, we often focus on their economic and social development. Is it becoming wealthier? Is its society modernizing? Is it becoming more technologically sophisticated? Are social outcomes improving for the broad mass of the public? The process of development policy implementation, however, is always and inevitably political. Put simply, regime type matters when it comes to deciding on a course of development to follow. Further, political institutions matter. When a government''s institutional capacity is low, the chances of success severely decline, regardless of the merits of the development plan. In The Oxford Handbook of the Politics of Development, two of America''s leading political scientists on the issue, Carol Lancaster and Nicolas van de Walle, have assembled an international cast of leading scholars to craft a broad, state-of-the-art work on this vitally important topic. This volume is divided into five sections: major theories of the p\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface, Nicolas van de Walle  Part I: Major Theories and Intellectual histories  1. Modernization Theory: Does Economic Development Cause Democratization?  Jose Antonio Cheibub and James Raymond Vreeland  2. Dependency Theory  James Mahoney and Diana Rodriguez-Franco  3. Structuralism   Elliott Green  4. Political Development  Robert H. Bates  5.  The Washington Consensus and the New Political Economy of Economic Reform Kevin Morrison    6. Penury Traps and Prosperity Tales: Why Some Countries Escape Poverty While Others Do Not  M. Steven Fish  Part II: Domestic Factors   7. Culture, Politics and Development  Michael Woolcock  8. Religion, Politics and Economic Development: Synergies and Disconnects  Katherine Marshall   9.  Does Inequality Harm Economic Development and Democracy?: Accounting for Missing Values, Noncomparable Observations, and Endogeneity Christian Houle  10. Ethnicity and Development  Nic Cheeseman  11. Civil Conflict and Development  Håvard Hegre  12. The Politics of The resource Curse: a Review Michael L. Ross  13. Taxation and Development Mick Moore   14. How Do Governments Build Capabilities to Do Great Things?: Ten Cases, Two Competing Explanations, One Large Research Agenda Matt Andrews  15. Leadership and the Politics of Development  Adrian Leftwich and Heather Lyne De Ver   Part III: International Factors 16.  Colonialism and Development in Africa  Leander Heldring and James A. Robinson  17. Investment and Debt  Layna Mosley  18. The Role of the State in Harnessing Trade-and-Investment for Development Purposes Theodore H. Moran  19. International Financial Institutions and Market Liberalization in the Developing World  Stephen C. Nelson  20. Foreign Aid and Democratization in Developing Countries Danielle Resnick   Part IV: Political Systems and Structures 21. Organizing for Prosperity: Collective Action, Political Parties, and the Political Economy of Development  Philip Keefer  22. Missing Links in the Institutional Chain   Anirudh Krishna  23. The Comparative Politics of Service Delivery in Developing Countries Evan S. Lieberman  24. Party systems and the Politics of Development  Allen Hicken  25. Populism and Political Representation  Kenneth M. Roberts   Part V: Regional and Country Perspectives  26.   Africa's Political Economy in the Contemporary Era Peter M. Lewis  27. The Politics of Development in Latin America and East Asia James W. McGuire   28. Development and Underdevelopment in the Middle East and North Africa Melani Cammett  29. Rethinking the Institutional Foundations of China's Hypergrowth: Official Incentives, Institutional Constraints, and Local Developmentalism Fubing Su, Ran Tao, and Dali L. Yang  30. The Politics of Growth in South Korea: Miracle, Crisis, and the New Market Economy Stephan Haggard and Myung-Koo Kang","brand":"OUP USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52083818201431,"sku":"9780199845156","price":164.42,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780199845156.jpg?v=1762203925","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/oxford-handbook-of-the-politics-of-development-9780199845156","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}