India and the Politics of Developing Countries

India and the Politics of Developing Countries
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Publisher : SAGE
Total Pages : 267
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ISBN-10 : 9780761932871
ISBN-13 : 0761932879
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis India and the Politics of Developing Countries by : Myron Weiner

Myron Weiner, 1931-1999, American political scientist; contributed articles and seminar papers; most previously published in Asian survey, vol. 40, no. 5.

Imperialism and the Developing World

Imperialism and the Developing World
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 561
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ISBN-10 : 9780190069629
ISBN-13 : 0190069627
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Imperialism and the Developing World by : Atul Kohli

How did Western imperialism shape the developing world? In Imperialism and the Developing World, Atul Kohli tackles this question by analyzing British and American influence on Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America from the age of the British East India Company to the most recent U.S. war in Iraq. He argues that both Britain and the U.S. expanded to enhance their national economic prosperity, and shows how Anglo-American expansionism hurt economic development in poor parts of the world. To clarify the causes and consequences of modern imperialism, Kohli first explains that there are two kinds of empires and analyzes the dynamics of both. Imperialism can refer to a formal, colonial empire such as Britain in the 19th century or an informal empire, wielding significant influence but not territorial control, such as the U.S. in the 20th century. Kohli contends that both have repeatedly undermined the prospects of steady economic progress in the global periphery, though to different degrees. Time and again, the pursuit of their own national economic prosperity led Britain and the U.S. to expand into peripheral areas of the world. Limiting the sovereignty of other states-and poor and weak states on the periphery in particular-was the main method of imperialism. For the British and American empires, this tactic ensured that peripheral economies would stay open and accessible to Anglo-American economic interests. Loss of sovereignty, however, greatly hurt the life chances of people living in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. As Kohli lays bare, sovereignty is an economic asset; it is a precondition for the emergence of states that can foster prosperous and inclusive industrial societies.

Politics in Developing Countries

Politics in Developing Countries
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Publisher : Lynne Rienner Pub
Total Pages : 592
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ISBN-10 : 1555875416
ISBN-13 : 9781555875411
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Politics in Developing Countries by : Larry Jay Diamond

This text presents case studies of experiences with democracy in Asia, Affrica, Latin America and the Middle East, along with the editor's synthesis of the factors that facilitate and obstruct the development of democracy around the world. This second edition includes a chapter on South Africa.

Making Politics Work for Development

Making Politics Work for Development
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Publisher : World Bank Publications
Total Pages : 350
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ISBN-10 : 9781464807749
ISBN-13 : 1464807744
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis Making Politics Work for Development by : World Bank

Governments fail to provide the public goods needed for development when its leaders knowingly and deliberately ignore sound technical advice or are unable to follow it, despite the best of intentions, because of political constraints. This report focuses on two forces—citizen engagement and transparency—that hold the key to solving government failures by shaping how political markets function. Citizens are not only queueing at voting booths, but are also taking to the streets and using diverse media to pressure, sanction and select the leaders who wield power within government, including by entering as contenders for leadership. This political engagement can function in highly nuanced ways within the same formal institutional context and across the political spectrum, from autocracies to democracies. Unhealthy political engagement, when leaders are selected and sanctioned on the basis of their provision of private benefits rather than public goods, gives rise to government failures. The solutions to these failures lie in fostering healthy political engagement within any institutional context, and not in circumventing or suppressing it. Transparency, which is citizen access to publicly available information about the actions of those in government, and the consequences of these actions, can play a crucial role by nourishing political engagement.

Why Growth Matters

Why Growth Matters
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Publisher : PublicAffairs
Total Pages : 255
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ISBN-10 : 9781610392723
ISBN-13 : 1610392728
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis Why Growth Matters by : Jagdish Bhagwati

In its history since Independence, India has seen widely different economic experiments: from Jawharlal Nehru's pragmatism to the rigid state socialism of Indira Gandhi to the brisk liberalization of the 1990s. So which strategy best addresses India's, and by extension the world's, greatest moral challenge: lifting a great number of extremely poor people out of poverty? Bhagwati and Panagariya argue forcefully that only one strategy will help the poor to any significant effect: economic growth, led by markets overseen and encouraged by liberal state policies. Their radical message has huge consequences for economists, development NGOs and anti-poverty campaigners worldwide. There are vital lessons here not only for Southeast Asia, but for Africa, Eastern Europe, and anyone who cares that the effort to eradicate poverty is more than just good intentions. If you want it to work, you need growth. With all that implies.

Democracy, Development, and the Countryside

Democracy, Development, and the Countryside
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 232
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ISBN-10 : 0521646251
ISBN-13 : 9780521646253
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Democracy, Development, and the Countryside by : Ashutosh Varshney

Several scholars have written about how authoritarian or democratic political systems affect industrialization in the developing countries. There is no literature, however, on whether democracy makes a difference to the power and well-being of the countryside. Using India as a case where the longest-surviving democracy of the developing world exists, this book investigates how the countryside uses the political system to advance its interests. It is first argued that India's countryside has become quite powerful in the political system, exerting remarkable pressure on economic policy. The countryside is typically weak in the early stages of development, becoming powerful when the size of the rural sector defies this historical trend. But an important constraint on rural power stems from the inability of economic interests to overpower the abiding, ascriptive identities, and until an economic construction of politics completely overpowers identities and non-economic interests, farmers' power, though greater than ever before, will remain self-limited.

Democracy and Discontent

Democracy and Discontent
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 442
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ISBN-10 : 0521396921
ISBN-13 : 9780521396929
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Democracy and Discontent by : Atul Kohli

Long considered one of the great successes of the developing world, India has more recently experienced growing challenges to political order and stability. Institutional mechanisms for the resolution of conflict have broken down, the civil and police services have become highly politicized, and the state bureaucracy appears incapable of implementing an effective plan for economic development. In this book, Atul Kohli analyzes political change in India from the late 1960s to the late 1980s. Based on research conducted at the local, state and national level, the author analyzes the changing patterns of authority in and between the centre and periphery. He combines rich empirical investigation, extensive interviews and theoretical perspectives in developing a detailed explanation of the growing crisis of governance his research reveals. The book will be of interest to both specialists in Indian politics and to students of comparative politics more generally.

Politics in the Developing World

Politics in the Developing World
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 590
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ISBN-10 : 9780199296088
ISBN-13 : 0199296081
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Politics in the Developing World by : Peter J. Burnell

This textbook deals with the central political themes and issues in the developing world, such as globalization, inequality, and democracy. Leading experts in the field provide up-to-date and systematic coverage. The book is accompanied by an Online Resource Centre.Student resources:Three additional case studies, including one on ChinaWeb links from the bookFlashcard glossary

Costs of Democracy

Costs of Democracy
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 383
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ISBN-10 : 9780199093137
ISBN-13 : 019909313X
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Costs of Democracy by : Devesh Kapur

One of the most troubling critiques of contemporary democracy is the inability of representative governments to regulate the deluge of money in politics. If it is impossible to conceive of democracies without elections, it is equally impractical to imagine elections without money. Costs of Democracy is an exhaustive, ground-breaking study of money in Indian politics that opens readers’ eyes to the opaque and enigmatic ways in which money flows through the political veins of the world’s largest democracy. Through original, in-depth investigation—drawing from extensive fieldwork on political campaigns, pioneering surveys, and innovative data analysis—the contributors in this volume uncover the institutional and regulatory contexts governing the torrent of money in politics; the sources of political finance; the reasons for such large spending; and how money flows, influences, and interacts with different tiers of government. The book raises uncomfortable questions about whether the flood of money risks washing away electoral democracy itself.

The Political Economy of Development in India

The Political Economy of Development in India
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Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0631135456
ISBN-13 : 9780631135456
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis The Political Economy of Development in India by : Pranab K. Bardhan

Analysis of the economic policy and obstacles to economic growth in India - examines the role of public investment and public sector management in slow agricultural development and industrial growth; explores the political aspects and economic role of the Elite social classes (industrial capitalists, rich farmers and civil servants), the social conflicts between them, and the economic implications of this conflict for capital resources mobilization. Bibliography, statistical tables.