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Contents
1. Introduction 3
Part I The Historical Context
2. Two Centuries of South American Reflections on the Development Gap between the United States and Latin America 11
3. Looking at Them: A Mexican Perspective on the Gap with the United States 48
4. Explaining Latin America's Lagging Development in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century: Growth Strategies, Inequality, and Economic Crises 72
Part II The Politics of Underdevelopment in Latin America
5. Does Politics Explain the Economic Gap between the United States and Latin America? 99
6. The Role of High-Stakes Politics in Latin America's Development Gap 134
Part III Institutional Factors in Latin America's Development
7. The Latin American Equilibrium 161
8. Do Defective Institutions Explain the Development Gap between the United States and Latin America? 194
9. Why Institutions Matter: Fiscal Citizenship in Argentina and the United States 222
10. Conclusion 268
Contributors 297
Index 301