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    Series series Public Management and Change series
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    State Building in Latin America diverges from existing scholarship in developing explanations both for why state-building efforts in the region emerged and for their success or failure. First, Latin American state leaders chose to attempt concerted state-building only where they saw it as the means to political order and economic development. Fragmented regionalism led to the adoption of more ... Leer más

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  • Power Switch

    Energy Regulatory Governance in the Twenty-First Century

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  • The Politics of Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Medicines

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
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    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The overarching objective of this book is to summarize, extend, and update previous research on educational differences in family behavior in Japan. This is the first comprehensive treatment of the subject and the first to evaluate family differentials in Japan in the context of ideas articulated in research on “diverging destinies” and “patterns of disadvantage” as part of the second demographic ... Leer más

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