1st Edition

Political Development Theory The Contemporary Debate

By Richard Higgott Copyright 1983
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines development theory from a political persepctive. It considers modernisation theory and public policy, as well as Marxism, the state, and the third world.

Chapter 1 Development and the Social Sciences: A Suggested Form of Analysis; Chapter 2 From Modernisation Theory to Public Policy: Continuity and Change in the Political Science of Political Development; Chapter 3 Beyond the Sociology of Underdevelopment: Dependency, Marxism and the State; Chapter 4 The Search for Common Ground: Public Policy and the State in the Third World; Chapter 5 Conclusion;

Biography

Richard A. Higgott