Development Against Democracy: Manipulating Political Change in the Third World

Author:   Irene L. Gendzier ,  Robert Vitalis ,  Thomas Ferguson
Publisher:   Pluto Press
Edition:   2nd edition
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9780745337289


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   20 August 2017
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Author:   Irene L. Gendzier ,  Robert Vitalis ,  Thomas Ferguson
Publisher:   Pluto Press
Imprint:   Pluto Press
Edition:   2nd edition
Weight:   0.365kg
ISBN:  

9780745337289


ISBN 10:   0745337287
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   20 August 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Acknowledgements Foreword by Thomas Ferguson Introduction by Robert Vitalis 1. The 'New Look' in Development Studies 2. Making Connections 3. Discourse on Development 4. Transparent Boundaries: From Policies to Studies of Political Development 5. Defining the Parameters of Discourse 6. The Academic Translation: Liberal Democratic Theory and Interpretations of Political Development 7. The Impossible Task of Theories of Political Development Epilogue Notes Index

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Pathbreaking... a major contribution. -- Marilyn B. Young


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Irene L. Gendzier is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at Boston University, an Affiliate in Research at Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University and a research affiliate of the MIT Center for International Studies. She is also the author of Dying to Forget (Columbia University Press, 2016), Notes From the Minefield (Columbia University Press, 2006) Development Against Democracy (Pluto, 2017); and co-editor of Crimes of War (Nation Books, 2006). Robert Vitalis is Professor of International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of White World Order, Black Power Politics (Cornell University Press, 2015) and a contributor to Development Against Democracy (Pluto, 2017). Thomas Ferguson is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is the author of Golden Rule (University of Chicago Press, 1995) and Right Turn (Hill and Wang, 1986). He contributed the foreword to Irene L. Gendzier's Development Against Democracy (Pluto, 2017).

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