Political Change and Underdevelopment

by Randall, Vicky; Theobald, Robin

• ISBN13: 9780822320791
• ISBN10: 0822320797
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-09-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

This is an essential text for students of politics and Third World societies, but is also to be recommended to anyone seeking a clearer understanding of the central issues underlying Third World politics today.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	1	(16)
1 Towards a Politics of Modernisation and Development	17	(28)
The Need for Theory	17	(3)
Modernisation Theory	20	(6)
A Framework for Analysing Third World Politics: Almond's Structural Functionalism	26	(6)
Political Development Theory	32	(5)
The Decline of Political Development Theory	37	(1)
Democratisation: The Reincarnation of Political Development?	38	(7)
2 Modernisation Revisionism	45	(41)
Caste and Political Modernisation	48	(4)
The Politics of Ethnicity	52	(2)
`Ethnicity' and the Nigerian Civil War	54	(7)
`Religion' and Politics	61	(1)
The Islamic Revolution in Iran	62	(9)
The Politics of Clientelism	71	(13)
The Contribution of Modernisation Revisionism	84	(2)
3 The Emergence of a Politics of Order	86	(34)
The Myth of the Unified Military	93	(3)
Patrimonialism, the Military and Society	96	(2)
Patrimonialism in Brazil	98	(7)
The Middle-class Coup	105	(12)
Conclusion	117	(3)
4 Dependency Theory and the Study of Politics	120	(46)
Approaches to Economic Development	121	(2)
Lenin's Theory of Imperialism	123	(4)
Towards a Theory of Dependency	127	(5)
Frank on Brazil	132	(4)
The Limitations of Frank's Approach for Political Analysis	136	(7)
Other Dependency Theorists: Immanuel Wallerstein	143	(4)
The Development of Dependency Theory: Faletto and Cardoso	147	(6)
Dependency Theory in Abeyance: The Neo-Liberal Offensive	153	(3)
Debt, Structural Adjustment and the Continuing Relevance of Dependency Theory	156	(7)
Conclusion	163	(3)
5 The State and Civil Society	166	(56)
Class Formation at the Periphery	167	(4)
The Struggle for Class Dominance and the State	171	(2)
Neo-Marxism and the Post-Colonial State	173	(8)
The Corporatist State	181	(7)
Strong States? Autonomy, Embeddedness and State Capacity	188	(6)
State Bureaucracies	194	(8)
Civil Society	202	(14)
Structural Approaches to Democratisation	216	(3)
Conclusion	219	(3)
6 Globalisation and the Study of Political Change	222	(44)
Reprise of the Argument So Far	222	(10)
The New Paradigm of `Globalisation'	232	(3)
The Paradigm Elaborated: Economic, Cultural and Political Dimensions	235	(7)
Globalisation and Democratisation	242	(3)
Explaining Globalisation	245	(2)
Globalisation as a Dialectical Process	247	(6)
Globalisation and the State	253	(3)
Globalisation and the Third World: A Preliminary Assessment	256	(5)
Modernity and the Globalisation of Tradition: Prospects for the Third World State	261	(5)
Bibliography	266	(16)
Index	282