State building in boom times : commodities and coalitions in Latin America and Africa

Resource Information

The work State building in boom times : commodities and coalitions in Latin America and Africa represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

State building in boom times : commodities and coalitions in Latin America and Africa

Title remainder

commodities and coalitions in Latin America and Africa

Statement of responsibility

Ryan Saylor

Creator

• Saylor, Ryan

Subject

• Commercial products -- Africa
• Commercial products -- Latin America
• Nation-building -- Africa
• Nation-building -- Latin America
• Coalitions -- Africa
• Coalitions -- Latin America

Language

eng

Summary

Saylor argues that commodity booms and coalitional politics are central to understanding the state building variation within and across Latin America and Africa. He shows how resource booms can trigger the provision of new public goods and institutional strengthening and thus help countries expand their state capacity. But these possibilities hinge on coalitional politics, as seen through six cases

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

320.98

Index

index present

LC call number

JL966

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

specialized