In the Shadow of Violence: Politics, Economics, and the Problems of Development
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (728 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1107684919 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 378 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Rather than castigating politicians and elites as simply corrupt, the case studies illustrate why development is so difficult to achieve in societies where the role of economic organizations is manipulated to provide political balance and stability. North, John Joseph Wallis, and Barry R. The cases show how political control of economic privileges is used to limit violence and coordinate coalitions of powerful organizations. This book applies the conceptual framework of Douglass C. The volume develops the idea of limited-access social order as a dynamic social system in which violence is constantly a threat, and political and economic outcomes result from the need to control violence rather than promoting economic growth or political rights.. Weingast's Violence and Social Orders (Cambridge University Press, 2009) to nine developing countries
Government-sponsored monopoly corruption nations William Garrison Jr. "In The Shadow of Violence", ed. by Douglass North, et. al., (Jan. 2013). This book is everything about "Limited Access Orders" (LAO). So what's an LAO? According to the authors, an LAO is a "way or organizing a society" whereby "developing societies limit violence through the manipulation of economic interests by the political system in order to create rents so that powerful groups and individuals find it in their interest to refrain from using violence" (p.3). Essentially, the authors spin the old adage . An Intriguing Explanation of Violence for the Academic Crowd Michael Griswold In the Shadow of Violence uses a framework previously developed by Douglass North, John Wallis, and Barry Weingast in previous work to nine developing countries to illustrate how political control of economic resources is used to limit violence and coordinate coalitions of powerful organizations.The central idea of the book is that development is difficult, not because politicians are socially and morally bankrupt, but that economic institutions are manipulated in the attempt to provide stability and polit. "More research needed" according to Junglies. I selected this book while still part of the way through the recent work by Pippa Norris Making Democratic Governance Work: How Regimes Shape Prosperity, Welfare, and Peacealthough I was not very familiar with the contributions by North at that time. The contrast between the approach of the political scientist (Norris) and the economist (North) is acute. Whilst reading for my first BA in Economics I had selected Development Economics as one of my specialist areas and later became familiar with the work of,
The studies show how the World Bank's attempts to transform countries into 'open access orders' typically yield more violence than development. 'This book is a welcomed and outstanding companion to Violence and Social Orders by North, Wallis, and Weingast. The well-acclaimed editors offer an alternative approach to development policy - working within 'limited access orders' in order to improve people's livelihoods.' David D. The editors apply the earlier framework to numerous countries and draw lessons from which we gain considerable insights into modern development.' Lee J. Finally we are headed in the right direction. Laitin, Stanford University'Through the insightful, well-documented case studies in this volume, we discover that control of violence is central to the experiences of the least and most successful developing countries of the last 50 years. This book is necessary reading for dev
Krebs Family Professor in the Department of Political Science and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He received his PhD from the University of Washington in 1981 and had a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago. Professor Weingast spent ten years at Washington University in St. Professor Wallis is an