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Are public officials really less satisfied than private sector workers?A comparative study in Brazil
The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877 1900. By Richard Franklin Bensel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xxiii, 549. $64.95.
Are economic development and political democracy compatible If so, how Richard Franklin Bensel s latest book answers the first question affirmatively but suggests that compatibility is not inevitable. Most of the book addresses the second question by explaining how the United States accomplished the compatibility feat over the last quarter of the nineteenth century. This rich, intricate analysis demands attention by those interested in the politics and economics of U.S. development.