Kirk S Bowman
Biographic Data
| ID | 718383 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kirk S Bowman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kirk S |
| FAMILY NAME | Bowman |
| SIGNATURE | BOWMAN K S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Peddling Paradise: The Politics of Tourism in Latin America
With tourism lauded throughout Latin America as a sure engine of economic growth, actual performance in the sector has varied to an extreme degree. Kirk Bowman asks why. Why did states become so actively involved in the tourism sector even as they were reducing their role in other sectors of the economy? Why have destinations with similar endowments differed so greatly in their success in attracting international tourists? And why does tourism in…
Pura Vida: Using Study Abroad to Engage Undergraduate Students in Comparative Politics Research
Political science undergraduate students often have a difficult time understanding the processes and methods of social science research. The foci of courses in comparative politics such as Latin American Politics or European Politics are typically descriptive information, concepts and theories, and an overview of the principal debates and research findings. This stands in sharp contrast to undergraduate pedagogy in the natural sciences, where lab…
Militarization, Democracy, and Development: The Perils of Praetorianism in Latin America
New Scholarship on Costa Rican Exceptionalism
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Demanding Democracy: Reform and Reaction in Costa Rica and Guatemala, 1870s-1950s
Should the Kuznets effect be relied on to induce equalizing growth: Evidence from post-1950 development
Taming the Tiger: Militarization and Democracy in Latin America
The relationship between militarization and democracy in Latin America 1972-86 is evaluated. Two dimensions of democracy loosely based on Dahl's Polyarchy - average democracy over time and the lowest level of democracy during a multi-year period of time - are regressed against two indicators of militarization, military spending and military participation ratios. In pooled time-series analyses, it is shown that: (a) military spending has a signifi…
The Border as locator and innovator of vice
The proposition of this article is that the border is not merely the place where vice exists, but an active and dynamic force both in locating vice businesses and in innovating the type of and marketing of legal vice being offered. Gambling in Nevada and around Utah will be used to illustrate the hypothesis that the border is a powerful stimulus in determining the location of businesses which feature legal vice. Then the Mexican-American border w…
Should the Kuznets effect be relied on to induce equalizing growth: Evidence from post-1950 development
The Border as locator and innovator of vice
The proposition of this article is that the border is not merely the place where vice exists, but an active and dynamic force both in locating vice businesses and in innovating the type of and marketing of legal vice being offered. Gambling in Nevada and around Utah will be used to illustrate the hypothesis that the border is a powerful stimulus in determining the location of businesses which feature legal vice. Then the Mexican-American border w…
Taming the Tiger: Militarization and Democracy in Latin America
The relationship between militarization and democracy in Latin America 1972-86 is evaluated. Two dimensions of democracy loosely based on Dahl's Polyarchy - average democracy over time and the lowest level of democracy during a multi-year period of time - are regressed against two indicators of militarization, military spending and military participation ratios. In pooled time-series analyses, it is shown that: (a) military spending has a signifi…
The Border as locator and innovator of vice
The proposition of this article is that the border is not merely the place where vice exists, but an active and dynamic force both in locating vice businesses and in innovating the type of and marketing of legal vice being offered. Gambling in Nevada and around Utah will be used to illustrate the hypothesis that the border is a powerful stimulus in determining the location of businesses which feature legal vice. Then the Mexican-American border w…
Taming the Tiger: Militarization and Democracy in Latin America
The relationship between militarization and democracy in Latin America 1972-86 is evaluated. Two dimensions of democracy loosely based on Dahl's Polyarchy - average democracy over time and the lowest level of democracy during a multi-year period of time - are regressed against two indicators of militarization, military spending and military participation ratios. In pooled time-series analyses, it is shown that: (a) military spending has a signifi…
Should the Kuznets effect be relied on to induce equalizing growth: Evidence from post-1950 development
New Scholarship on Costa Rican Exceptionalism
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Demanding Democracy: Reform and Reaction in Costa Rica and Guatemala, 1870s-1950s
Militarization, Democracy, and Development: The Perils of Praetorianism in Latin America
Pura Vida: Using Study Abroad to Engage Undergraduate Students in Comparative Politics Research
Political science undergraduate students often have a difficult time understanding the processes and methods of social science research. The foci of courses in comparative politics such as Latin American Politics or European Politics are typically descriptive information, concepts and theories, and an overview of the principal debates and research findings. This stands in sharp contrast to undergraduate pedagogy in the natural sciences, where lab…
Peddling Paradise: The Politics of Tourism in Latin America
With tourism lauded throughout Latin America as a sure engine of economic growth, actual performance in the sector has varied to an extreme degree. Kirk Bowman asks why. Why did states become so actively involved in the tourism sector even as they were reducing their role in other sectors of the economy? Why have destinations with similar endowments differed so greatly in their success in attracting international tourists? And why does tourism in…
Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Development economics (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Cuban History and Society (2 works) · Militarization (2 works)