Understanding Third World Politics

civil society is organized to influence policy makers, mobilize public opin- ion, hold governments at all levels to account, and ...

knowledge and mobilization that typically distinguish class and other inter- ests in capitalist society (Grugel, 2002, pp. 94–5) ...

In South and Central America the relative power of social classeswas found to be dependent upon the reaction of the new middle c ...

parties, a foundation of democracy has been removed with authoritarian consequences (Huntington, 1984; Diamond, 1988, pp. 21–7; ...

Other institutional weaknesses have been reflected in political parties that are internally divided, unable to articulate intere ...

tendency for presidential systems to produce deadlock in executive–legislative relations, ideological polarization, and difficul ...

Conclusion With the dominant ideology in the world prescribing a free-market econ- omy, there are very powerful pressures being ...

12 Conclusion: Democracy and Development The main challenge facing Third World societies today is the creation of a political sy ...

the democratic process. How long some of the diverse coalitions for the restoration of democracy can survive the enormous expect ...

is precisely what has happened in the newly industrializing states of the Third World, where democracy has until very recently b ...

Asian Tigers, produced remarkable economic achievements, many others have not, notably in Africa. A comparison of 135 countries ...

The resurgence of religious fundamentalism in parts of the Third World appears to undermine much of modernization theory’s concl ...

ways that reach the poor, and strengthening the Rule of Law to remove the illegalities which the poor encounter when they seek t ...

The political culture may include anti-democratic values which endorse such authoritarian modes of government, especially among ...

Nation’s World Summit on the Environment in 2002). Associations to rep- resent the rights of workers are often banned, but as in ...

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