Militarization, Democracy, and Development: The Perils of Praetorianism in Latin America

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Militarization, Democracy, and Development: The Perils of Praetorianism in Latin America
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press | ISBN: 0271022299 | edition 2002 | PDF | 272 pages | 2,84 mb

Do Third World countries benefit from having large militaries, or does this impede their development? In the face of conflicting evidence from prior quantitative research and case studies, Kirk Bowman sets out to explore just what effect militarization has had on development in Latin America.
Identifying distinctive features of the military as an institution in Latin America, Kirk Bowman uses statistical analysis to demonstrate that militarization has had a particularly malignant impact in this region of the world on three key measures of development: democracy, economic growth, and equity. For this quantitative comparison he draws on longitudinal data for a sample of 76 developing countries and for 18 Latin American nations.
 

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