Democracy and Development or Understanding Nonprofit Organizations

Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-Being in the World, 1950-1990

Author: Adam Przeworski

Is economic development conducive to political democracy? Does democracy foster or hinder material welfare? These two questions are examined by looking at the experiences of 135 countries between 1950 and 1990. Descriptive information, statistical analyses, and historical narratives are interwoven to gain an understanding of the dynamic of political regimes and their impact on economic development. The often surprising findings dispel any notion of a tradeoff between democracy and development. Economic development does not generate democracies, but democracies are much more likely to survive in wealthy societies.

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Is economic development conducive to political democracy? Does democracy hinder material welfare? These two questions are examined by looking at 135 countries between 1950 and 1990. Descriptive information and statistical analyses are interwoven to gain an understanding of the dynamic of political regimes and their impact on economic development.

Table of Contents:

	List of Tables and Figures
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Democracies and Dictatorships	13
App. 1.1	Alternative Approaches	55
App. 1.2	Classification of Political Regimes, 1950-1990	59
App. 1.3	Basic Data about Regime Dynamics	69
App. 1.4	The "Short" Data Base	77
2	Economic Development and Political Regimes	78
App. 2.1	Dynamic Probit Model	137
App. 2.2	Survival Models	139
3	Political Regimes and Economic Growth	142
App. 3.1	Identification, Specification, and Robustness	179
App. 3.2	Estimating the Contribution of Public Investment	184
4	Political Instability and Economic Growth	187
App. 4.1	Estimating the Impact of Expectations on Economic Performance	213
5	Political Regimes and Population	216
App. 5.1	Calculating Age Structure	265
	Conclusion	269
	App. C.1: Simulation	278
	App. I: Selection Model	279
App. II	Codebook	291
	References	301
	Author Index	313
	Country Index	316
	Subject Index	320

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Understanding Nonprofit Organizations: Governance, Leadership, and Management

Author: Steven J Ott

J. Steven Ott’s Understanding Nonprofit Organizations: Governance, Leadership, and Management is a collection of the most insightful and most recent readings about the challenges of managing a nonprofit organization in the United States. The anthology examines the distinctiveness of nonprofit organizations through the writing of scholars, consultants, and practicing executives. It focuses on governing, leading, and managing nonprofit organizations and how nonprofit organizations differ from both the public and private sectors. The 37 chapters speak to the most important functions, contextual factors and internal functions, concepts, and issues that face today’s leaders and managers of nonprofit organizations. Understanding Nonprofit Organizations: Governance, Leadership, and Management is an ideal text for use in graduate and upper-division undergraduate survey courses on nonprofit organizations and management.

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Ott (political science, U. of Utah), the editor of the companion volume on , collects three dozen reprinted readings from 1987-99 on the governance, legal framework, effective ethical leadership, strategic planning, fund- raising, entrepreneurship and commercialism, managing under government contracts, budgeting, managing volunteers, accountability and evaluation, and international aspects of US nonprofit organizations. Lacks an index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)