Political Change and Underdevelopment: A Critical Introduction to Third World Politics

ISBN-13: 9780333698020 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 294 str.

Vicky Randall; Robin Theobald

Opis

This clearly-written and comprehensive introductory text provides a critical review of the principal theoretical approaches to the study of Third World politics in the second half of the twentieth century. Arguments are illustrated by examples drawn from a wide and diverse range of regions and countries. All chapters have been extensively amended and updated for this substantially revised edition to include such developments as the debt crisis and democratisation, and a new chapter has been added on the impact of globalisation on the postcolonial world.

Spis treści

Introduction.- Towards a Politics of Modernisation and Development.- Modernisation Revisionism.- The Emergence of a Politics of Order.- Dependency Theory and the Study of Politics.- The State and Civil Society.- Globalisation and the Study of Political Change.- Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

VICKY RANDALL is Reader in Government, University of Essex

ROBIN THEOBALD is Principal Lecturer in Sociology, University of Westminster and Visiting Lecturer, City University, London