Politics In Developing Countries
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Author | : Damien Kingsbury |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2019-02-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 135158314X |
Politics in Developing Countries provides a clear and reader-friendly introduction to the key factors and themes that shape political processes in developing countries. Achieving development outcomes such as reducing poverty and inequality is only possible through efficient governance, well-planned policies and careful allocation of resources, but often politics in developing countries has been identified with mismanagement, corruption, conflict and repression of dissent. This book assesses the politics of developing countries in the period since decolonisation, focusing on the ways in which states have or have not worked to the advancement of their citizens’ interests. Key topics include: Colonialism and its legacy Ethnicity and nation building Governance, corruption and the role of the state Poverty and the political economy of development Aid and outside influence. Drawing on a range of case studies from around the world, Politics in Developing Countries looks at the consistencies and variations between developing countries, examining why some have forestalled political change by liberalising their economies, and others have actively stifled calls for change. Wide-ranging and engagingly written, this introductory textbook is perfect for students of politics and international development, as well as for those with a general interest in the challenges faced by countries in the Global South.
Author | : Peter J. Burnell |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 590 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0199296081 |
This textbook deals with the central political themes and issues in the developing world, such as globalization, inequality, and democracy. Leading experts in the field provide up-to-date and systematic coverage. The book is accompanied by an Online Resource Centre.Student resources:Three additional case studies, including one on ChinaWeb links from the bookFlashcard glossary
Author | : World Bank |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2016-07-14 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1464807744 |
Governments fail to provide the public goods needed for development when its leaders knowingly and deliberately ignore sound technical advice or are unable to follow it, despite the best of intentions, because of political constraints. This report focuses on two forces—citizen engagement and transparency—that hold the key to solving government failures by shaping how political markets function. Citizens are not only queueing at voting booths, but are also taking to the streets and using diverse media to pressure, sanction and select the leaders who wield power within government, including by entering as contenders for leadership. This political engagement can function in highly nuanced ways within the same formal institutional context and across the political spectrum, from autocracies to democracies. Unhealthy political engagement, when leaders are selected and sanctioned on the basis of their provision of private benefits rather than public goods, gives rise to government failures. The solutions to these failures lie in fostering healthy political engagement within any institutional context, and not in circumventing or suppressing it. Transparency, which is citizen access to publicly available information about the actions of those in government, and the consequences of these actions, can play a crucial role by nourishing political engagement.
Author | : Samuel Hickey |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 019883568X |
This book focuses on how politics shapes the capacity and commitment of elites to tackle the learning crisis in six developing countries. It deploys a new conceptual framework to show how the type of political settlement shaptes the level of elite commitment and state capacity to improving learning outcomes.
Author | : Larry Jay Diamond |
Publisher | : Lynne Rienner Pub |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 1995-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781555875411 |
This text presents case studies of experiences with democracy in Asia, Affrica, Latin America and the Middle East, along with the editor's synthesis of the factors that facilitate and obstruct the development of democracy around the world. This second edition includes a chapter on South Africa.
Author | : Uday Desai |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1998-04-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780791437803 |
Examines in depth the ecological problems, policies, and politics of ten major developing countries.
Author | : Brian Clive Smith |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780253342171 |
Praise for the first edition: "... this masterful and concise volume overviews the range of approaches social scientists have applied to explain events in the Third World." --Journal of Developing Areas Understanding Third World Politics is a comprehensive, critical introduction to political development and comparative politics in the non-Western world today. Beginning with an assessment of the shared factors that seem to determine underdevelopment, B. C. Smith introduces the major theories of development--development theory, modernization theory, neo-colonialism, and dependency theory--and examines the role and character of key political organizations, political parties, and the military in determining the fate of developing nations. This new edition gives special attention to the problems and challenges faced by developing nations as they become democratic states by addressing questions of political legitimacy, consensus building, religion, ethnicity, and class.
Author | : Ernest J. Wilson (III.) |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780262232302 |
An analysis of the problems and possibilities of the information revolution in developing countries, taking into account political, institutional, and cultural dynamics and structures.
Author | : Robert A. Scalapino |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674687578 |
Author | : Naho Mirumachi |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2015-03-05 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1135082839 |
This book examines the political economy that governs the management of international transboundary river basins in the developing world. These shared rivers are the setting for irrigation, hydropower and flood management projects as well as water transfer schemes. Often, these projects attempt to engineer the river basin with deep political, socio-economic and environmental implications. The politics of transboundary river basin management sheds light on the challenges concerning sustainable development, water allocation and utilization between sovereign states. Advancing conceptual thinking beyond simplistic analyses of river basins in conflict or cooperation, the author proposes a new analytical framework. The Transboundary Waters Interaction NexuS (TWINS) examines the coexistence of conflict and cooperation in riparian interaction. This framework highlights the importance of power relations between basin states that determine negotiation processes and institutions of water resources management. The analysis illustrates the way river basin management is framed by powerful elite decision-makers, combined with geopolitical factors and geographical imaginations. In addition, the book explains how national development strategies and water resources demands have a significant role in shaping the intensities of conflict and cooperation at the international level. The book draws on detailed case studies from the Ganges River basin in South Asia, the Orange–Senqu River basin in Southern Africa and the Mekong River basin in Southeast Asia, providing key insights on equity and power asymmetry applicable to other basins in the developing world.