Colburn Forrest D. Managing the Commanding Heights: Nicaragua`s State Enterprises 9780520304079

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Автор: Colburn Forrest D.
Название: Managing the Commanding Heights: Nicaragua`s State Enterprises
ISBN: 9780520304079
Издательство: Wiley
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История Америк

ISBN-10: 0520304071
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 164
Вес: 0.21 кг.
Дата издания: 27.11.2018
Язык: English
Размер: 210 x 140 x 10
Ссылка на Издательство: Link
Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Revolutions have often occurred in poor countries. Although triumphant revolutionaries may lack the resources to assume complete responsibility for their countrys economy, they do tend to nationalize what Lenin called the commanding heights--those enterprises that meet the strategic needs of the polity. How these enterprises are administered is consequential, and at times decisive, for the course of revolutionary change.

In Managing the Commanding Heights, Forrest D. Colburn explores the Sandinistas management of Nicaraguas state enterprises, with an emphasis on the critical agrarian sector. Central to the book are three lively and instructive case studies that provide a penetrating glimpse into life in post-revolutionary Nicaragua. In analyzing these cases, Colburn explains the intentions of the Sandinista elite and links them with choices made at individual enterprises.

Colburn argues that state enterprises have been politically useful but economically unsuccessful. Even with the unseen political advantages of state enterprises, the pronounced financial losses of nationalized farms and factories exacerbate the economic--and ultimately political--vulnerability of a regime already weakened by counterrevolution. The evidence demonstrates trenchant limitations to a revolutionary states capacity to improve popular welfare. State capacity is undermined by multiple factors: international constraints on the autonomy of post-revolutionary regimes, sheer poverty, the unintended but inevitable political manipulation of the economy, the lack of managerial ability among even well-intentioned elites, and a revolutionary mentalit that erodes rationality. These same difficulties have bedeviled other post-revolutionary regimes, notably those in Africa.

Managing the Commanding Heights is essential reading for anyone interested in the dynamics of revolutionary regimes and the possibilities for radical change in poor countries.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

Managing the Commanding Heights: Nicaragua`s State Enterprises, Colburn Forrest D.