ADVANCING THE STUDY OF STATENESS IN CENTRAL AMERICA: METHODOLOGY AND SOME ILLUSTRATIVE FINDINGS

This paper succintly describes how a network of researchers associated to the Costa Rican Programa Estado de la Nación developed new data sources and crafted direct measures of stateness for the Central America countries. Our theoretical framework relied on Mann's concept of state infrastructur...

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Autor principal: VARGAS CULLELL,JORGE
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Ciencia Política 2012
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-090X20120003000122013-02-15ADVANCING THE STUDY OF STATENESS IN CENTRAL AMERICA: METHODOLOGY AND SOME ILLUSTRATIVE FINDINGSVARGAS CULLELL,JORGE Stateness Infrastructural Power Democratization Central America Institutional Capabilities This paper succintly describes how a network of researchers associated to the Costa Rican Programa Estado de la Nación developed new data sources and crafted direct measures of stateness for the Central America countries. Our theoretical framework relied on Mann's concept of state infrastructural power. As a result, a wealth of information is now available to scholars studying stateness in Central America, as well as to researchers engaged on broader comparative research about stateness in Latin America. Some preliminary findings are reported and guidelines for future research are suggested.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Ciencia PolíticaRevista de ciencia política (Santiago) v.32 n.3 20122012-01-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-090X2012000300012en10.4067/S0718-090X2012000300012
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topic Stateness
Infrastructural Power
Democratization
Central America
Institutional Capabilities
spellingShingle Stateness
Infrastructural Power
Democratization
Central America
Institutional Capabilities
VARGAS CULLELL,JORGE
ADVANCING THE STUDY OF STATENESS IN CENTRAL AMERICA: METHODOLOGY AND SOME ILLUSTRATIVE FINDINGS
description This paper succintly describes how a network of researchers associated to the Costa Rican Programa Estado de la Nación developed new data sources and crafted direct measures of stateness for the Central America countries. Our theoretical framework relied on Mann's concept of state infrastructural power. As a result, a wealth of information is now available to scholars studying stateness in Central America, as well as to researchers engaged on broader comparative research about stateness in Latin America. Some preliminary findings are reported and guidelines for future research are suggested.
author VARGAS CULLELL,JORGE
author_facet VARGAS CULLELL,JORGE
author_sort VARGAS CULLELL,JORGE
title ADVANCING THE STUDY OF STATENESS IN CENTRAL AMERICA: METHODOLOGY AND SOME ILLUSTRATIVE FINDINGS
title_short ADVANCING THE STUDY OF STATENESS IN CENTRAL AMERICA: METHODOLOGY AND SOME ILLUSTRATIVE FINDINGS
title_full ADVANCING THE STUDY OF STATENESS IN CENTRAL AMERICA: METHODOLOGY AND SOME ILLUSTRATIVE FINDINGS
title_fullStr ADVANCING THE STUDY OF STATENESS IN CENTRAL AMERICA: METHODOLOGY AND SOME ILLUSTRATIVE FINDINGS
title_full_unstemmed ADVANCING THE STUDY OF STATENESS IN CENTRAL AMERICA: METHODOLOGY AND SOME ILLUSTRATIVE FINDINGS
title_sort advancing the study of stateness in central america: methodology and some illustrative findings
publisher Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Ciencia Política
publishDate 2012
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