São Paulo, by far the most populated state in Brazil, has an economy to rival that of Colombia or Venezuela. Its capital city is the fourth largest metropolitan area in the world. How did São Paulo, o
As the dust settles on nearly three decades of economic reform in Latin America, one of the most fundamental economic policy areas has changed far less than expected: labor regulation. To date, Latin
Early modern, long-distance trade was fraught with risk and uncertainty, driving merchants to seek means (that is, institutions) to reduce them. In the traditional historiography on Spanish colonial t
Measuring Up traces the high levels of poverty and inequality that Mexico faced in the mid-twentieth century. Using newly developed multidisciplinary techniques, the book provides a perspective on liv
Between Tyranny and Anarchy provides a unique comprehensive history and interpretation of efforts to establish democracies over two centuries in the major Latin American countries. Drake takes an unus
According to the editors (a trio of senior fellows of the Hoover Institution) there may be broad agreement that a large financial system is a prerequisite for economic growth, but there is distinct di
This work addresses the development of congressional practices and institutions and ties the changes to key political and economic events. In connecting political and economic events with changes in C
Brady (political science and leadership values, Stanford U.) and McCubbins (political science, U. of California at San Diego) present the second of their edited volumes examining the institutional his
After its independence in 1821, Mexico experienced more than fifty years of political chaos until Porfirio Diaz assumed power in 1876. Thirty-five years later, Mexico entered another period of turbule
Traditional historiography describes the repartimiento de mercancias as a forced system of production and consumption in which officials of the Spanish crown compelled Mexican Indians to produce goods
This book discusses the reunification of Germany, and the negative impacts that this had on East German intellectuals. The book is an ethnographic account of how the intellectuals of East German
How did foreign investment in infrastructure affect a relatively backward Latin American economy? The author engages this long-standing issue in Latin American history by applying the methods of the n
In recent decades, political scientists have produced an enormous body of scholarship dealing with the U.S. Congress, and in particular congressional organization. However, most of this research has f
Political scientists address some of the major questions that have animated debates about the functioning of the U.S. Congress, but from a wider historical perspective than the standard studies concen
