| ID | 092867 |
| Title Proper | Social foundations of institutional order |
| Other Title Information | reconsidering war and the "resource curse" in third world state building |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Kurtz , Marcus J |
| Publication | 2009. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This manuscript departs strongly from conventional accounts that ascribe a central role to war and the threat of war in Third World state building. Similarly, it challenges the conventional wisdom that abundant exportable natural resource wealth is likely to provoke institutional atrophy. Instead, it argues that a set of logically prior conditions-the social relations that govern the principal economic sectors and the pattern or intraelite conflict or compromise-launch path-dependent processes that help determine when, and if, either strategic conflict or resource wealth contribute to, or impede, institutional development. The argument is tested in the comparative analysis of the state-building process in two Andean neighbors (Chile and Peru), both of which are situated in similar strategic and natural resource environments but which produced qualitatively different outcomes in terms of state capacity or "strength." |
| `In' analytical Note | Politics and Society Vol. 37, No. 4; Dec 2009479-520 |
| Journal Source | Politics and Society Vol. 37, No. 4; Dec 2009479-520 |
| Key Words | State Building ; Resource Curse ; War ; Political Development ; Latin America |