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

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 S. Grindle, Merilee Serrill Grindle
• Assisted by: Ellen Comisso (Editor), Peter Hall (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.02.1996
• EAN: 9780521559195
• ISBN: 978-0-521-55919-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparati
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education