Challenging the State - Crisis and Innovation in Latin America and Africa

Klappentext This book examines the development of Latin America and Africa in the face of challenging political and economic crises. Zusammenfassung Using case studies of Mexico and Kenya this book shows how a decade of deep and sustained crisis also became a decade of innovations in ideas! policy directions! political coalitions! and government institutions. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Challenging the state: a decade of crisis; 2. Crisis and the state: evidence from Latin America and Africa; 3. Crisis and breakdown in Mexico and Kenya; 4. Imposing state authority; 5. Managing the economy; 6. Administering the public good; 7. Responding to society; 8. States of change.

Product details

• Authors: Merilee Grindle, Merilee S. Grindle, Merilee S. (Harvard University Grindle, Merilee Serrill Grindle
• Assisted by: Ellen Comisso (Editor), Peter Hall (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.02.1996
• EAN: 9780521551069
• ISBN: 978-0-521-55106-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparati
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education