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From Windfall to Curse?

Oil and Industrialization in Venezuela, 1920 to the Present

By: Jonathan Di John

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From Windfall to Curse?

Oil and Industrialization in Venezuela, 1920 to the Present

By: Jonathan Di John

Since the discovery of abundant oil resources in the 1920s, Venezuela has had an economically privileged position among the nations of Latin America, which has led to its being treated by economic and political analysts as an exceptional case. In her well-known study of Venezuela’s political economy, The Paradox of Plenty (1997), Stanford political scientist Terry Karl argued that this oil wealth induced extraordinary corruption, rent-seeking, and centralized intervention that resulted in restricting productivity and growth. What this and other studies of Venezuela’s economy fail to explain, however, is how such conditions have accompanied both growth and stagnation at different periods of Venezuela’s history and why countries experiencing similar levels of corruption and rent-seeking produce divergent developmental outcomes. By investigating the record of economic development in Venezuela from 1920 to the present, Jonathan Di John shows that the key to explaining why the economy performed much better between 1920 and 1980 than in the post-1980 period is to understand how political strategies interacted with economic strategies—specifically, how politics determined state capacity at any given time and how the stage of development and development strategies affected the nature of political conflicts. In emphasizing the importance of an approach that looks at the political economy, not just at the economy alone, Di John advances the field methodologically while he contributes to a long-needed history of Venezuela’s economic performance in the twentieth century.

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Penn State Press

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0271076909

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Is Political Philosophy Impossible?

Thoughts and Behaviour in Normative Political Theory

By: Jonathan Floyd

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Is Political Philosophy Impossible?

Thoughts and Behaviour in Normative Political Theory

By: Jonathan Floyd

Political philosophy seems both impossible to do and impossible to avoid. Impossible to do, because we cannot agree on a single set of political principles. Impossible to avoid, because we're always living with some kind of political system, and thus some set of principles. So, if we can't do the philosophy, but can't escape the politics, what are we to do? Jonathan Floyd argues that the answer lies in political philosophy's deepest methodological commitments. First, he shows how political philosophy is practiced as a kind of 'thinking about thinking'. Second, he unpicks the different types of thought we think about, such as considered judgements, or intuitive responses to moral dilemmas, and assesses whether any are fit for purpose. Third, he offers an alternative approach - 'normative behaviourism' - which holds that rather than studying our thinking, we should study our behaviour. Perhaps, just sometimes, actions speak louder than thoughts.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108508936

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From Windfall to Curse?

Oil and Industrialization in Venezuela, 1920 to the Present

By: Jonathan Di John

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Oil and Industrialization in Venezuela, 1920 to the Present

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From Windfall to Curse?

Oil and Industrialization in Venezuela, 1920 to the Present

By: Jonathan DiJohn

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Oil and Industrialization in Venezuela, 1920 to the Present

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Examines the political economy of growth in Venezuela since the discovery of oil in 1920"--Provided by publisher.

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0271050276

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Meeting the Challenges of Crisis States

By: James Putzel,Jonathan Di John,London School of Economics and Political Science. Crisis States Research Centre

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Meeting the Challenges of Crisis States

By: James Putzel,Jonathan Di John,London School of Economics and Political Science. Crisis States Research Centre

The authors underline the fact that aid and other forms of external intervention need to be better directed in the so-called "fragile states" of the developing world. The authors argue that confusion permeates Western aid programmes in countries where states either face escalating violent challenges or are attempting reconstruction and state-building in the wake of war. The report, which includes country and city case studies in Africa, Asia and Latin America and analysis of regional conflict trends, looks into the drivers of violent conflict in the developing world and why some states and cities have fared better than others in avoiding large-scale violence or in rebuilding public and private organisations after war. It highlights policy-relevant findings under seven thematic chapters.

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Book's by Jonathan DiJohn

From Windfall to Curse?

From Windfall to Curse?

Is Political Philosophy Impossible?

Is Political Philosophy Impossible?

From Windfall to Curse?

From Windfall to Curse?

From Windfall to Curse?

From Windfall to Curse?

Meeting the Challenges of Crisis States

Meeting the Challenges of Crisis States

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