Understanding political finance reform / Pippa Norris and Andrea Abel van Es -- Brazil / Bruno Speck -- Britain / Justin Fisher -- India / Eswaran Sridharan and Milan Vaishnav -- Indonesia / Marcus Mietzner -- Japan / Matthew Carlson -- Russia / Grigorii V. Golosov -- South Africa / Richard...

Modernization theory : does economic development cause democratization? / Jose Antonio Cheibub and James Raymond Vreeland -- Dependency theory / James Mahoney and Diana Rodriguez-Franco -- Structuralism / Elliott Green -- Political development / Robert H. Bates -- The Washington Consensus and...

Although funding infrastructure has always been a challenging issue in any country and at any time, the topic is still largely unexplored. A European history of infrastructure financing over the long term does not yet exist, and the purpose of this book is to partially fill that gap. It explores...