Jacobsen, John Kurt, 1949-

Chasing progress in the Irish Republic : ideology, democracy, and dependent development / John Kurt Jacobsen. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1994. - xi, 226 p. ; 24 cm. + pbk.

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1982.

Bibliography: (pages 205-221) and index.

Introduction -- Reflex modernization: state, ideology and dependent development -- Perils of planning: foreign capital, domestic policy and the problem of state "strength" -- The pale replica -- The rising tide -- Pushbuttons and pragmatists -- Governability and corporatist compromise -- Getting it right: debt, taxes and industrial strategy, 1984-1990 -- Afterword: 1991-1993.

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