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One Road to Riches? How State Building and Democratization Affect Economic Development

Paperback • 2022 • English

One Road to Riches? How State Building and Democratization Affect Economic Development

By Haakon Gjerløw, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Tore Wig, Matthew Charles Wilson

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Building effective state institutions before introducing democracy is widely presumed to improve different development outcomes. Conversely, proponents of this "stateness-first" argument anticipate that democratization before state building yields poor development outcomes. In this Element, we discuss several strong assumptions that (different versions of) this argument rests upon and critically evaluate the existing evidence base. In extension, we specify various observable implications. We the...Show more

Development economics and emerging economies

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9781009054553

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published year

2022

Language

English

Original title

One Road to Riches? How State Building and Democratization Affect Economic Development

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Paperback

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