Colonialism and Postcolonial Development

Spanish America in Comparative Perspective

By:

James Mahoney

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

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In this comparative-historical analysis of Spanish America, Mahoney offers a new theory of colonialism and postcolonial development. He explores why certain kinds of societies are subject to certain kinds of colonialism and why these forms of colonialism give rise to countries with differing levels of economic prosperity and social well-being. Mahoney contends that differences in the extent of colonialism are best explained by the potentially evolving fit between the institutions of the colonizing nation and those of the colonized society. Moreover, he shows how institutions forged under colonialism bring countries to relative levels of development that may prove remarkably enduring in the postcolonial period. The argument is sure to stir discussion and debate, both among experts on Spanish America who believe that development is not tightly bound by the colonial past, and among scholars of colonialism who suggest that the institutional identity of the colonizing nation is of little consequence.

Author Biography:

James Mahoney is a Professor of Political Science and Sociology at Northwestern University. He is the author of The Legacies of Liberalism: Path Dependence and Political Regimes in Central America (2001), which received the Barrington Moore Jr. Prize of the Comparative and Historical Section of the American Sociological Association. He is also coeditor of Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences (Cambridge University Press, 2003), which received the Giovanni Sartori Book Award of the Qualitative Methods Section of the American Political Science Association and coeditor (with Kathleen Thelen) of Explaining Institutional Change: Ambiguity, Agency, and Power (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Release date Australia

February 15th, 2010

Author

James Mahoney

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

18 Tables, unspecified; 7 Maps; 10 Line drawings, unspecified

Pages

424

Series

Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

Dimensions

156x234x22

ISBN-13

9780521133289

Product ID

3844243

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