Understanding Third World Politics

the social and political order. The nouveaux pauvresresent their poverty, a particularly significant fact given that economic gr ...

reduce inequalities and increase the real value of wages, did popular protest subside. Where the state responded with repression ...

strikes, peasant uprisings and urban riots was rounded off by a coup d’étatby army officers. He points out that expectations of ...

class as businesses closed and bank accounts were frozen. Unemployment reached 25 per cent by mid-2002. Social hardship among th ...

conflict in the Third World, ranging from secession to equal rights, greater political participation, an end to economic and soc ...

political cultures found in Third World societies. A landmark in this line of analysis was an attitude survey carried out in the ...

There is a further problem with the argument that instability stems from the plurality of political cultures found in many Third ...

authority if it is proved easy to abuse. But acting contrary to some rules because others are being bent and broken may be more ...

While trends in inequality in the Third World do not follow any regional pattern, overall inequality has increased over the last ...

in land but also have alternative sources of wealth and reasonable levels of income (Russett, 1964; Huntington, 1968). This rela ...

sub-ministerial positions in the executive branch. In all regions of the Third World women constitute no more than 15 per cent o ...

history shows that even revolutionary states ‘are as resistant as other states to the participation of women’ (Craske, 1999, pp. ...

Those who control and manage the means of production, such as bureau- crats earning salaries, often confront a peasant society t ...

This view of civil conflict and political instability may confuse cause with effect. The factors which are presented as the cons ...

who believed that the most important political consequence of modernization in a pre-industrial society is a rapid increase in p ...

significant in raising class consciousness, as in the case of Islamic funda- mentalism in Iran and Algeria. Existing social and ...

dynasties, marginalize democratic procedures, exclude other élites from decision-making, and provide no opportunities for change ...

traditional legitimacy are losing it rapidly. The political vacuum is filled by a central executive power which attempts to rise ...

Thirdly, revolution needs a social exchangebetween the peasantry and a revolutionary organization. The relationship between the ...

the peasantry play in revolutionary situations’ (Alavi, 1973, p. 292). He was particularly concerned with the respective roles o ...