Social Foundations of Limited Dictatorship: Networks and Private Protection During Mexico's Early Industrialization

by Armando Razo

This innovative new book contributes simultaneously to two different disciplinary fields: comparative political economy and Mexican history. It does so by attempting to explain why Mexico--contrary to the predictions of several dominant theories of economic growth--enjoyed a comparatively high rate of economic growth and development under the highly authoritarian dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz (1876-1911). In conducting a detailed political analysis...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804756619
• ISBN13: 9780804756617
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"