02654cam a2200313 a 4500 091106s2010 nyua b 001 0 eng 9780521515467 0521515467 9780521139342 0521139341 SDU HB1323 M478 W 2010 McGuire, James W. 183203 Wealth, health, and democracy in East Asia and Latin America / James W. McGuire. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010. 406 p. : ill. 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. HKBU library YT2025 M09 "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. Infants Mortality East Asia. 183204 Infants Mortality Latin America. 183205 East Asia Social policy. 183206 East Asia Economic policy. 183207 Latin America Social policy. 183208 Latin America Economic policy. = C.1 SDU GBE lcc 101302 101302 0 0 lcc 0 HB1323 M478 W2010 0 CGB 283339 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-09-29 2 0 HB1323 M478 W 2010 1000377337 2025-09-29 00:00:00 C.1 2025-09-29 GBE