Democracy, governance, and growth / edited by Stephen Knack ; with a foreword by Charles A. Cadwell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Knack, Stephen F.

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector Center.

Series:

Economics, cognition, and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development--Political aspects.

Economic development.

Democracy.

Economic policy.

Political planning.

Physical Description:

xii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2003]

Summary:

This volume provides theoretical and/or empirical underpinnings for the emerging consensus that differences in the way governments and societies are organized have enormous implications for the structure of incentives faced by politicians, bureaucrats, investors, and workers, which in turn determines the level of a nation's material well-being.

Notes:

Results of research conducted at the Center on Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS) at the University of Maryland.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0472098233

0472068237

OCLC:

50143694