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Making Democratic Governance Work : How Regimes Shape Prosperity, Welfare, and Peace.
This book argues that both liberal democracy and state capacity need strengthening to deliver effective development.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Making Democratic Governance Work: How Rigmes Shape Prosperity, Welfare, and Peace; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables and Figures; Preface and Acknowledgments; PART I INTRODUCTION; 1 Does Democratic Governance Determine Human Security?; THE UNIFIED THEORY OF DEMOCRACY + GOVERNANCE; The Lessons of Regime Change for Human Development; THE CASE OF KOREA; Plan of the Book; I. Introduction; II. Comparing Regimes; III. Regime Effects; IV. Conclusions; 2 Theories of Regime Effects; THE DEBATE ABOUT REGIME EFFECTS; Structural Perspectives; THEORIES OF DEMOCRACY PROMOTION.
- Electoral Incentives and Median Voter Theory: Meltzer and RichardThe Institutional Constraints of Liberal Democracy: Sen; Consensus or Power-Sharing Democracy: Lijphart; OR STATE-BUILDING FIRST?; State-Building: The Huntington Thesis; "Good Governance" for Human Development: The World Bank Thesis; Bureaucratic Capacity; THE COMBINATION OF DEMOCRACY + GOVERNANCE; CONCLUSIONS; PART II COMPARING REGIMES; 3 The Regime Typology; THE CONCEPT OF GOVERNANCE; Measuring State Capacity; THE CONCEPT AND MEASUREMENT OF DEMOCRACY; Freedom House: Liberal Democracy; Polity IV: Democracy-Autocracy Scale.
- APPLYING THE REGIME TYPOLOGYBureaucratic Democracies: Chile; Patronage Democracies: Ghana; Patronage Autocracies: Somalia; Bureaucratic Autocracies: Singapore; CONCLUSIONS; 4 Analyzing Regime Effects; THE CONCEPT AND MEASUREMENT OF HUMAN SECURITY; MONITORING THE CONSEQUENCES OF DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE; Progress in Human Security; The Third Wave of Democratization; Selecting Outcome Indices; RESEARCH CHALLENGES; Case Studies; Global Comparisons; OLS Regression Models with Panel-Corrected Standard Errors; Before and after Fixed Effects; Instrumental Variables; Country Selection Bias.
- Omitted Variable Bias and ControlsPART III REGIME EFFECTS; 5 Prosperity; I. THEORIES LINKING REGIMES WITH ECONOMIC GROWTH; The Skeptical Null Hypothesis; The Effects of Governance on Growth; Neoliberal Claims for "Good Governance"; The Effects of State Capacity on Growth; The Effects of Democracy on Growth; Accountability: Elections Reward Competent Economic Management; Do Democracies Strengthen Human Capital with Indirect Effects on Growth?; Do Power-Sharing Democracies Promote Growth?; The Unified Theory and Democratic Governance; II. CHALLENGES IN RESEARCH DESIGN.
- III. THE MAIN EFFECTS OF REGIMES ON GROWTHDemocratic Governance and Growth; Divergent Trajectories: Haiti and the Dominican Republic; The Dominican Republic; Haiti; IV. CONCLUSIONS; 6 Welfare; I. THEORIES OF DEMOCRACY, GOVERNANCE, AND WELFARE; Democracy and Welfare; Or State-Building, Good Governance, and Public Administration?; Or the Skeptical Null Hypothesis?; II. EVIDENCE AND RESEARCH DESIGN; The Human Development Index; Longevity; Child Mortality; Health: Vulnerability to Fatal Diseases; Gender Parity in Education; Access to Education; III. REGIMES AND DEVELOPMENT.