Analyzing the Third World : essays from Comparative politics

Author(s)

• Provizer, Norman W.

Bibliographic Information

Analyzing the Third World : essays from Comparative politics

edited by Norman W. Provizer

Schenkman Pub. Co., c1978

• pbk

Note

Includes bibliographcial references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book presents essays from Comparative Politics which analyze the Third World in terms of commonally shared intra-state dynamics. It draws attention to the internal attitudinal, behavioral, and organizational problems and transitions which characterize Third World countries.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction and Overview: The Idea of the Third World Part I: Comparative Politics, Modernity, and Change 2. Comparative Politics and the Study of Government: The Search for Focus 3. The Change to Change: Modernization, Development, and Politics 4. The Attitudes of Modernity 5. The Problem of Identity, Selfhood, and Image in the New Nations: The Situation in Africa Part II: Politics and the Social Order 6. Political Clientelism and Development: A Preliminary Analysis 7. Participation and Efficacy: Aspects of Peasant Involvement in Political Mobilization 8. India's Urban Constituencies Part III: The Organization of Politics 9. The Politics of Predevelopment 10. The National Electoral Process and State Building: Proposals for New Methods of Election in Uganda 11. Democracy and Social Mobilization in Lebanese Politics Part IV: Politics and the Men on Horseback 12. The Praetorian State and the Praetorian Army: Toward a Taxonomy of Civil-Military Relations in Developing Polities 13. Military and Society in East Africa: Thinking Again about Praetorianism 14. A Comparative Analysis of the Political and Economic Performance of Military and Civilian Regimes: A Cross-National Aggregate Study Part V: Leadership and Public Policy 15. The Comparative Analysis of Political Leadership 16. Leaders and Structures in 'Third World' Politics: Contrasting Approaches to Legitimacy 17. Revolutionary and Managerial Elites in Modernizing Regimes 18. Political Mainsprings of Economic Planning in the New Nations: The Modernization Imperative Versus Social Mobilization

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA20437901
• ISBN:
  • 0870739425
  • 0870739433
• LCCN: 77013286
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 485 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : JF60
  • DC : 320.9/172/4
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Developing countries -- Politics and government -- Addresses, essays, lectures
  • LCSH : Comparative government -- Addresses, essays, lectures