00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000003724 15436/MKRI-P/XII-2009 15435/MKRI-P/XII-2009 20221026101443 15435/MKRI-P/XII-2009 15436/MKRI-P/XII-2009 0010-0520003724 221026################|##########|#eng## 9780813333649 eng 338.9 338.9 POL Political Capacity and Economic Behavior Political Capacity and Economic Behavior / Edited by Marina Arbetman and Jacek Kugler Colorado : Sage, 1997 xii, 338 p. : : illus. ; 24 cm Indeks : p.327-338 p.307-326 How can governments enhance economic growth while avoiding social and political instability? This timely book by an international team of economists and political scientists tackles that question head on, using theory and empirical data to provide a framework for measuring governments' ability to gather material resources and mobilize populations. It analyze a variety of policy choices made in the United States and in other nations around the world during the past fifty years, showing how states can increase their political capacity and thereby reduce economic transaction costs and domestic resistance to government goals. Economic policy. Social policy. Edited by Marina Arbetman and Jacek Kugler 15435/MKRI-P/XII-2009 15436/MKRI-P/XII-2009