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The historical factors which underlie the building of stronger public institutions have been systematically studied across many disciplines. Yet, the historical conditions and processes that have made certain public institutions stronger in some countries, but not in others, remain little understood. State Building in Boom Times sheds new light on this issue by analyzing the conditions of state building beyond Europe. In so doing, the book highlights the role of commodity export sectors in strengthening public institutions during resource booms. Ryan Saylor attempts to understand state capacity augmentation in moments of commodity export surge by engaging in a historical comparison of six countries – Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ghana, Mauritius, and Nigeria. The book focuses on two critical elements: coalitions between economic and political actors, and the delivery of public goods (e.g., territorial pacification, transportation, reduction of capital transaction costs). The book argues that countries which favored the formation of coalitions between political and economic elites during boom times thereby created strong incentives for the ruling elites to expand the provision of public goods. Saylor considers commodity booms to be disruptive to the status quo, as they generate profit for certain economic actors who will then threaten the political hegemony of the ruling elites by demanding the provision of additional public goods. In Saylor’s analysis, the creation of boom time elite coalitions determined the variation of state building across his six countries. Argentina, Chile and Mauritius provide the most successful stories of state building in Latin America

Saylor, Ryan. State Building in Boom Times: Commodities and Coalitions in Latin America and Africa