Comparing Apples and Mangoes: The Overpoliticized State in Developing Countries
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Uncovers important similarities in the political features of developing countries in Africa, Asia,and Latin America.
Two competing approaches currently dominate the debate about the state and institutions in developing countries. The first projects a picture of transnational, vertical uniformity descending from the West to developing countries and views liberal democracy as "the only game in town." In this view, the state and institutions resemble or ought to resemble those in the West. The ...



