Rethinking Development: Modernization, Dependency, and Post-Modern Politics - Brossura

E. Apter, David

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ISBN 10: 0803929722 ISBN 13: 9780803929722

Casa editrice: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1987

Riassunto

Development theory is at a crossroads. Dominant theories such as modernization and dependency have run their course. In Rethinking Development

one of the preeminent political and social theorists of our time offers his view of the direction of the discipline. Using major themes such as the relation between development and democracy, the problem of innovation and marginality, Professor Apter offers an innovative comparative study of development.

Rethinking Development takes a new look at scientific, romantic and teleological formulations of development, showing how conventional concepts of development prevent us from seeing its negative consequences. It argues that development will generate democracy, but not e

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Contenuti

Introduction
Toward a Theory of Modernization
Some Characteristics of Modernization
Notes For a Theory of Non-Democratic Representation
Equity and Allocation in Modernizing Societies
Equity and Allocation in Industrial Societies
Sanrizuka
A Case of Violent Protest in a Multiparty State
Thinking About Violence
Notes on the Underground
Left Violence and the National State
The New Mytho/Logics and the Specter of Superfluous Man

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1987
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0803929722
• ISBN 13: 9780803929722
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 332
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile