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Promise Of Development Theories Of Change In Latin America
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Routledge
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In recent years Latin Americanists have been among the most innovative and productive theorists of the uneven process of development. This collection of substantial selections from some of the most prominent theorists in the field represents a scholarly consolidation and reassessment of the controversies concerning the development of Latin America. Beginning with a historiographic overview, the... Read more
Also of Interest -- Preface -- Introduction -- Lost Promise: Explaining Latin American Underdevelopment -- Modernization -- Values, Education, and Entrepreneurship -- The Politics of Social and Economic Change in Latin America -- Political Change in Latin America: The Emergence of the Middle Sectors -- Responsibility of the Latifundios for Lags in Social Development -- Dependency and Marxism -- The Development of Underdevelopment -- Economic Development of Latin America -- Nationalism and Populism: Social and Political Forces of Development in the Phase of Consolidating the Domestic Market -- Feudalism and Capitalism in Latin America -- Corporatism -- Social Change, Political Development, and the Latin American Tradition -- Natural Corporatism and the Passing of Populism in Spanish America -- Bureaucratic Authoritarianism -- Toward an Alternative Conceptualization of South American Politics -- Tensions in the Bureaucratic-Authoritarian State and the Question of Democracy -- Conclusion -- The Promise of Theory
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Peter F Klaren, Thomas J Bossert
