Understanding Third World Politics
5 The State in the Third World Introduction The different attempts to explain the nature of Third World politics in terms of enc ...
Thirdly, there is a controversy about whether the forces of globalization have rendered the state obsolete or at least transform ...
any other. None gets its way to the exclusion of others to a disproportionate extent. In this respect pluralists are building up ...
activity, public expenditure and taxation at a minimum, thereby maximizing the level of private incomes. But even though there m ...
political process. A need was seen to ‘bring the state back in’ to political analysis. This was not only a reaction against mode ...
dominance of a particular economic class, is close to the idea of the state as something that can stand aloof from the immediate ...
the terms that prevailed in other parts of the social sciences where the military and bureaucracy were seen as modernizing élite ...
These classes were in conflict, competing with each other for the resources which were under the control of the state. The lande ...
a regime that would be sufficiently removed from the immediate interests of any one of those three classes to be able to exercis ...
prosperous traders, and farmers. The East African colonial state had subordinated pre-capitalist, though non-feudal, social form ...
economic groups (such as motor manufacturers in Korea) and the impor- tance of co-operation with the state of at least those par ...
would be the case in countries where there had been virtually no experience of parliamentary and representative government befor ...
replace expatriate officialdom with local people. The overdeveloped state seemed to fit the Alavi model. Elsewhere, however, ove ...
correct partisan credentials are held, to what extent are such officials a different species of bureaucrat as far as the ordinar ...
The line of explanation is different from Alavi’s. It examines dependent societies where the process of modernization has not le ...
further industrial expansion. It is a phase marked by the high cost of imported intermediate goods and capital equipment that ca ...
success in handling this contradiction. Brazil was better than Argentina at inte- grating the national bourgeoisie after establi ...
States will also vary in the extent of their capacity to implement their policies.Capacityis a key concept in this approach to s ...
The configuration of interests and interest groups in a society reflects the composition of state interventions in society and e ...
and the power of socio-economic groups and interests can increase or decrease together. For example, trans-national corporations ...
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