Political Change and Underdevelopment

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.

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

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