Performance of Nations

Informationen zum Autor Jacek Kugler is Elizabeth Helms Rosecrans Professor of World Politics and Political Economy in the School of Politics and Economics at Claremont Graduate University. Ronald L. Tammen is professor of political science and director of the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University. Klappentext Why do some nations fail while others succeed? How can we compare the political capacity of a totalitarian regime to a democracy? Are democracies always more efficient? The Performance of Nations answers these key questions by providing a powerful new tool for measuring governments' strengths and weaknesses. Allowing researchers to look inside countries down to the local level as well as to compare across societies and over time, the book demonstrates convincingly that political performance is the missing link in measuring power and military capability. This groundbreaking work will be an essential resource for scholars, policymakers, and institutions interested in measuring the political capacities of nations and in knowing where foreign aid and investment will be most effective.

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• Authors: Jacek Tammen Kugler
• Assisted by: Jacek Kugler (Editor), Kugler Jacek (Editor), Ronald L Tammen (Editor), Ronald L. Tammen (Editor), Tammen Ronald L. (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9780810895423
• ISBN: 978-0-8108-9542-3
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Comparative Politics