Title Wealth, health, and democracy in East Asia and Latin America / James W. McGuire

Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 406 pages) : illustrations Contents Incomes, capabilities, and mortality decline -- Democracy, spending, services, and survival -- Costa Rica : a healthy democracy -- Chile : the Pinochet paradox -- Argentina : big welfare state, slow infant mortality decline -- Brazil : from laggard to leader in basic health service provision -- Taiwan : from poor but healthy to wealthy and healthy -- South Korea : small welfare state, fast infant mortality decline -- Thailand : democratization speeds infant mortality decline -- Indonesia : authoritarianism slows infant mortality decline -- Wealth, health, democracy, and mortality Summary "Why do some societies fare well, and others poorly, at reducing the risk of early death? Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America finds that the public provision of basic health care and other inexpensive social services has reduced mortality rapidly even in tough economic circumstances, and that political democracy has contributed to the provision and utilization of such social services, in a wider range of ways than is sometimes recognized. These conclusions are based on case studies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Indonesia, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand, as well as on cross-national comparisons involving these cases and others. James W. McGuire is professor in the Department of Government at Wesleyan University. He specializes in comparative politics with a regional focus on Latin America and East Asia and a topical focus on democracy and public health. He is the author of Peronism without Perón: Unions, Parties, and Democracy in Argentina and is a recipient of Wesleyan's Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching"--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Infants -- Mortality -- East Asia Infants -- Mortality -- Latin America SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Demography. Economic policy Infants -- Mortality Social policy SUBJECT East Asia -- Social policy East Asia -- Economic policy Latin America -- Social policy Latin America -- Economic policy Subject East Asia Latin America Form Electronic book LC no. 2009047101 ISBN 9780511743368 051174336X 9780511749919 0511749910

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