Politics in the developing world
By: edited by Peter Burnell and Vicky Randall.
Contributors: Burnell, Peter J.; Randall, Vicky.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9780199296088
Subjects: Developing countries -- Politics and government.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [529]-541) and index.
Table of contents: value: Approaches and global context; value: Analytical approaches to the study of politics in the developing world / Vicky Randall; value: Colonialism and post-colonial development / James Chiriyankandath; value: The developing world in the global economy / Stephen Hobden; value: The developing world in international politics / Stephen Hobden; value: Society and state; value: Inequality / Jenny Pearce; value: Ethnopolitics and nationalism / James R. Scarritt; value: Religion / Jeff Haynes; value: Women and gender / Kathleen Staudt; value: Civil society / Marina Ottaway; value: People power and alternative politics / Kurt Schock; value: State and society; value: Theorizing the state / Adrian Leftwich; value: State-building / Brian Smith; value: State collapse, civil conflict, and external intervention / Martin Doornbos; value: Democratization / Peter Burnell; value: Governance and conditionality in a globalizing world / Peter Burnell; value: Policy issues; value: Development / Tony Addison; value: Environment / Peter Newell; value: Human rights / Michael Freeman; value: Security / Nicole Jackson; value: Case studies: experiences compared; value: Disintegration or nation-building?; value: (a) Indonesia : copying with fragmentation / Edward Aspinall; value: (b) South Africa : from divided society to new nation / Robert A. Schrire; value: Civil society : active or passive?; value: (a) India : associational life and its discontents / Rob Jenkins; value: (b) Saudi Arabia : between tradition and modernity / David Pool, Peter Burnell, Vicky Randall; value: Military in politics versus democratic advance; value: (a) Pakistan : the military as a political fixture / David Taylor; value: (b) Nigeria : building political stability with democracy / Stephen Wright; value: (c) Mexico : democratic transition and beyond / Andreas Schedler; value: Underdevelopment and development; value: (a) Guatemala : enduring underdevelopment / Rachel Sieder; value: (b) South Korea : from development to new challenges / Peter Ferdinand; value: Appendix 1: case study countries : basic indicators; value: Appendix 2 : case study countries : globalization rankings and scores, 2001; value: Appendix 3 : regional inter-governmental organizations in the developing world.