Development against democracy manipulating political change in the third world

"This new, updated edition of the influential Development Against Democracy is a critical guide to postwar studies of modernization and development. In the mid-twentieth century, models of development studies were products of postwar American policy. They focused on newly independent states in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gendzier, Irene L.
Other Authors: Ferguson, Thomas ([writer of foreword])
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Pluto Press 2017, 2017©2017
Edition:New edition
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • The "new look" in development studies
  • Making connections
  • Discourse on development
  • Transparent boundaries : from policies to studies of political development
  • Defining the parameters of discourse
  • The academic translation : liberal democratic theory and interpretations of political development
  • The impossible task of theories of political development