1st Edition

Managing Political Change Social Scientists And The Third World

By Irene L. Gendzier Copyright 1985
    252 Pages
    by Routledge

    252 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book is designed as a guide which directs the reader through the maze of literature that Political Development studies involves and as a warning against the managerial approach to political change that such literature often masks.

    Also of Interest -- Preface -- Making Connections -- Discourse on Development -- Transparent Boundaries: From Policies to Studies of Political Development -- Defining the Parameters of Discourse -- The Academic Translation: Liberal Democratic Theory and Interpretations of Political Development -- The Impossible Task of Theories of Political Development -- Epilogue