Discourses of development : state, market and polity in the analysis of complex change

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Discourses of development : state, market and polity in the analysis of complex change

P. W. Preston

Avebury, c1994

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Bibliography: p. [232]-242

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This text offers a hermaneutic-critical discussion of different strategies for the analysis of complex change (in particular peripheral capitalism) and is ordered around development discourses centred on state, market and polity. It is illustrated with empirical material drawn from the Southeast Asian case. The text argues against both the technocratic-paternalistic schemes of the development of theoretic orthodoxy, and against the atavistic celebrations of the market offered by the new Right. Instead, it argues in favour of a sceptical return to the modernist project of the rational pursuit of formal and substantive democracy.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Introduction: reordering European developmental theory. Part 2 Discourses of the intervention of experts: logics of engagement
  • the pursuit of effective nationstatehood
  • reading the history of Singapore. Part 3 Discourses of spontaneous order: the reification of the market
  • analysing complex change in Singapore. Part 4 Discourses of political life: the modernist project
  • the return of the idea of democracy
  • state, economy and action within the global system
  • state-regimes and political projects in Singapore. Part 5 Conclusion: reaffirming the modernist project.

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