James W. McGuire

Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America

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Produktbeschreibung

James W. McGuire explores why some East Asian and Latin American societies have done better than others at raising life expectancy and reducing infant mortality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 426
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 803g
• ISBN-13: 9780521515467
• ISBN-10: 0521515467
• Artikelnr.: 28516775

Autorenporträt

James W. McGuire is a professor in the Department of Government at Wesleyan University, Connecticut. He specializes in comparative politics with a regional focus on Latin America and East Asia and a topical focus on democracy and public health. He is the author of Peronism without Perón: Unions, Parties, and Democracy in Argentina and is a recipient of Wesleyan's Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Incomes, capabilities, and mortality decline
2. Democracy, spending, services, and survival
3. Costa Rica: a healthy democracy
4. Chile: the pinochet paradox
5. Argentina: big welfare state, slow infant mortality decline
6. Brazil: from laggard to leader in basic health service provision
7. Taiwan: from poor but healthy to wealthy and healthy
8. South Korea: small welfare state, fast infant mortality decline
9. Thailand: democratization speeds infant mortality decline
10. Indonesia: authoritarianism slows infant mortality decline
11. Wealth, health, democracy, and mortality.