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040			_aSDU
050	0	0	_aHB1323 _bM478 W 2010
100	1		_aMcGuire, James W. _9183203
245	1	0	_aWealth, health, and democracy in East Asia and Latin America / _cJames W. McGuire.
260			_aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2010.
300			_a406 p. : _bill.
505	0		_aIncomes, 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.
505	0		_aHKBU library
518			_aYT2025 M09
520			_a"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.
650		0	_aInfants _xMortality _zEast Asia. _9183204
650		0	_aInfants _xMortality _zLatin America. _9183205
651		0	_aEast Asia _xSocial policy. _9183206
651		0	_aEast Asia _xEconomic policy. _9183207
651		0	_aLatin America _xSocial policy. _9183208
651		0	_aLatin America _xEconomic policy.
900			_a= C.1 SDU
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