Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: From Polycentrism to the Polity -- 2 Political Capabilities over the Long Run -- 3 Beyond the Political Impossibility Theorem of Agrarian Reform -- 4 Coalition Building from Below -- 5 Grounds for Alliance?: Overlapping...

For a large sample of 61 developing countries, over the period 1980-95, we calculate a measure of the efficiency with which national political-economic systems convert a given volume of material resources (GNP per capita) into human development (longevity, education and literacy) for their...