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This book is guided by three goals. The first objective is to identify the challenges encountered by the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Costa Rica, and Guatemala, as each struggled to create its own state and form its own political regime. The analysis begins with the colonial period and then discusses the challenges each state encountered from the moment it sought to attain independence to the present. The second goal is to postulate a set of time-related hypotheses that capture each state’s evolutionary processes of state creation and political-regime formation. The third goal is to explain why some of those states have been more effective than others at forming a democratic regime. |
