When bad economics is good politics / Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Hilton L. Root -- Order, disorder, and economic change: Latin America versus North America / Douglass C. North, William Summerhill, and Barry R. Weingast -- Political institutions, political survival, and policy success / Bruce...

Revolutions and revolutionaries, lessons of the years of crises : three Czech encounters with freedom / Martin Palous -- 1968 in Poland : spoiled children, Marxists, and Jews / Irena Gross -- In search of a new Left / Dick Howard -- Rethinking the political scientifically : brief reflections on...

Introduction / Anita M. Weiss -- part 1. Economic challenges. Explaining the puzzle of Pakistan's lagging economic growth / Shahrukh Rafi Khan ; Dependency is dead : long live dependency / Aasim Sajjad Akhtar ; Insecurity breeds insecurity / Abid Suleri -- part 2. Challenges of infrastructural...

The determinants of economic growth and development are hotly debated among economists. Financial crises and failed transition experiments have highlighted the fact that functioning institutions are fundamental to the goal of achieving economic growth. The growth literature has seen an abundance...