Efnisyfirlit

• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction: Development of Political Institutions to the French Revolution
• Part I: The State
• Chapter 1: What Is Political Development?
• Chapter 2: The Dimensions of Development
• Chapter 3: Bureaucracy
• Chapter 4: Prussia Builds a State
• Chapter 5: Corruption
• Chapter 6: The Birthplace of Democracy
• Chapter 7: Italy and the Low-Trust Equilibrium
• Chapter 8: Patronage and Reform
• Chapter 9: The United States Invents Clientelism
• Chapter 10: The End of the Spoils System
• Chapter 11: Railroads, Forests, and American State Building
• Chapter 12: Nation Building
• Chapter 13: Good Government, Bad Government
• Part II: Foreign Institutions
• Chapter 14: Nigeria
• Chapter 15: Geography
• Chapter 16: Silver, Gold, and Sugar
• Chapter 17: Dogs That Didn’t Bark
• Chapter 18: The Clean Slate
• Chapter 19: Storms in Africa
• Chapter 20: Indirect Rule
• Chapter 21: Institutions, Domestic or Imported
• Chapter 22: Lingua Francas
• Chapter 23: The Strong Asian State
• Chapter 24: The Struggle for Law in China
• Chapter 25: The Reinvention of the Chinese State
• Chapter 26: Three Regions
• Part III: Democracy
• Chapter 27: Why Did Democracy Spread?
• Chapter 28: The Long Road to Democracy
• Chapter 29: From 1848 to the Arab Spring
• Chapter 30: The Middle Class and Democracy’s Future
• Part IV: Political Decay
• Chapter 31: Political Decay
• Chapter 32: A State of Courts and Parties
• Chapter 33: Congress and the Repatrimonialization of American Politics
• Chapter 34: America the Vetocracy
• Chapter 35: Autonomy and Subordination
• Chapter 36: Political Order and Political Decay
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgments
• Index