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Politics and Development
A Critical Introduction
- Olle Törnquist - University of Oslo, Norway
August 2012 | 208 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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.
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
Towards the Study of Democratisation in the Context of Late Development
From Civil Society and Social Capital to the Politics of Democratisation
A well written Text.
Department of Psychology, Westminster University
October 12, 2010
Sage College Publishing
