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In Analytic Narratives, we attempt to address several issues. First, many of us are engaged in in-depth case studies, but we also seek to contribute to, and to make use of, theory. How might we best proceed? Second, the historian, the anthropologist, and the area specialist possess knowledge of a place and time. They have an understanding of the particular. How might they best employ such data to create and test theories that may apply more generally? Third, what is the contribution of formal theory? What benefits are, or can be, secured by formalizing verbal accounts? In recent years, King, Keohane, and Verba (1994) and Green and Shapiro (1994) have provoked debate over these and related issues. In Analytic Narratives, we join in the methodological discussions spawned by their contributions.

Haber, Stephen: Introduction: Institutional change, economic growth, and economic history. - S. 1-20. Summerhill, William R.: Institutional determinants of railroad subsidy and regulation in imperial Brazil. - S. 21-67. Haber, Stephen: The political economy of financial market regulation and industrial productivity growth in Brazil, 1866-1934. - S. 69-119. Taylor, Alan M. : Latin America and foreign capital in the twentieth century: economics, politics, and institutional change. - S. 121-158. Mariscal, Elisa ; Sokoloff, Kenneth L.: Schooling, suffrage, and the persistence of inequality in the Americas, 1800-1945. - S. 159-217. Dye, Alan: Privately and publicly induced institutional change: observations from cuban cane contracting, 1880-1936. - S. 219-271. North, Douglas C. ; Weingast, Barry R.: Concluding remarks: the emerging new economic history of Latin America. - S. 273-283

Modern developed nations are rich and politically stable in part because their citizens are free to form organizations and have access to the relevant legal resources. Yet in spite of the advantages of open access to civil organizations, it is estimated that eighty percent of people live in countries that do not allow unfettered access. Why have some countries disallow the formation of organizations as part of their economic and political system? The contributions to Organizations, Civil Society, and the Roots of Development seek to answer this question through an exploration of how developing nations throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Germany, made the transition to allowing their citizens the right to form organizations. The transition, contributors show, was not an easy one. Neither political changes brought about by revolution nor subsequent economic growth led directly to open access. In fact, initial patterns of change were in the opposite direction, as political coalitions restricted access to specific organizations for the purpose of maintaining political control. Ultimately, however, it became clear that these restrictions threatened the foundation of social and political order. Tracing the path of these modern civil societies, Organizations, Civil Society, and the Roots of Development is an invaluable contribution to all interested in today's developing countries and the challenges they face in developing this organizational capacity