This major textbook provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the main analytical approaches and their use in the study of third world politics and development.
The author outlines the difficulties in the various analytical approaches to the study of development within political science; presents a critical overview of each of the main schools of thought and explores the contemporary issue of democratization to illustrate how students can apply a framework for research and critically develop a perspective on their own.
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This text introduces analytical approaches and their use in the study of Third World politics and development. The author presents a critical overview of the main schools of thought, illustrates how students can apply a framework for research, and offers insights into Third World democratization.
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Introduction
PART ONE: THE STUDY OF THIRD WORLD POLITICS AND DEVELOPMENT
The Problem Area
The Sub-Discipline
Analytical Approaches
Political and Scientific Conjunctures
PART TWO: THE DISCUSSION ON THIRD WORLD POLITICS AND DEVELOPMENT
Modernisation and Political Development
Revised Modernisation and Guided Development
Dependency and Politics
Class Politics and the Relative Autonomy of the State
Rent-Seeking Politicians and Bureaucrats
The Primacy of Institutions
Post-Marxist Alternatives
PART THREE: FROM A SCHOOL TO A PERSPECTIVE AND STUDY OF ONE′S OWN
THE CASE OF DEMOCRATISATION
Towards the Study of Democratisation in the Context of Late Development
From Civil Society and Social Capital to the Politics of Democratisation
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`If it′s a lucid, concise intellectual history of development theory you′re looking for - one with originality and political bite, you′ll find it in T[um]ornquist′s fine book′ - James C Scott, Yale University
`This book introduces the student to the politics of development in the postcolonial world by familiarising them with the main debates on the subject. I can think of no better way of doing it′ - Mahmood Mamdani, University of Cape Town
`Through a wide ranging critique of influential conceptualisations of the ′Third World′, and by focussing on the symbiosis between politics and development, Tornquist opens the way for a fresh understanding of how late developing societies can be democratised′ - Neera Chandhoke, University of Delhi
`A pleasant, wide-ranging and ambitious textbook Olle Tornquist has written. It is pleasant because of the authors frankness about his own preferences combined with an openess towards diverging views; it is wide-ranging in the theoretical space it covers; and it is ambitious in the way it proposes a "best practice" within the study of politics and development....I recommend the book to anyone interested in entering a stimulating discussion on the subject′ - The European Journal of Development Research
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780761959342
Publisert
1998-12-29
Utgiver
Vendor
SAGE Publications Inc
Vekt
320 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
208
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