Understanding Third World Politics

same period the world’s flow of foreign direct investment more than tripled, from US$192 billion to 610 billion. Capital flows t ...

such as Greenpeace, the International Confederation of Trade Unions, the World Muslim Congress, the International Red Cross and ...

increases incomes on average, it does not guarantee that inequalities will not increase and poverty continue. Trade liberalizati ...

The state is needed to provide a legal and fiscal context that encourages economic development. The rule of law is necessary to ...

in the Third World, in particular the role of the bourgeoisie and its level of development. Foreign capital is part of the class ...

restored, competitive party systems established and economic liberalism enforced (Cammack et al., 1993, p. 79). The dialectical ...

with the international costs of globalization such as the growing inequality between countries, the international threats from c ...

6 Political Parties and Party Systems Introduction The purpose of this chapter is to consider the experience of Third World coun ...

used in a more recent study of a sample of Third World parties: see Randall, 1988): associations formally organized with the exp ...

assist in the process of political integration if parties are successful in draw- ing support from across regions to which peopl ...

office despite narrow electoral support are unlikely to initiate poverty allevi- ation programmes. In democracies with a small n ...

traditional communal values as well as European ideas about equality. Chinese Marxism–Leninism developed its own distinctive qua ...

interests. Political leaders such as Sékou Touré of Guinea claimed that though their societies might be divided into occupationa ...

a ‘revolutionary-centralizing’ pattern. Pragmatic pluralist parties were those that generally tolerated the persistence of tradi ...

and the ideological variable produce three main types of single-party system. The one-party authoritarian system (such as Mali, ...

independence. Consequently, considerable effort has been made to uncover convincing explanations for what was often regarded as ...

pursuit of public goals was an indulgence. However, research has failed to reveal evidence which consistently supports the view ...

Not all new states came into existence on the basis of a preparation for independence in a Western European constitutional mould ...

functioned. ... The tribal elders might make the decisions, but they would be decisions that reflected the consensus’ (Nursey-Br ...

1960 and 1969 ten of the 15 multi-party states in Africa had experienced military intervention. Of the 20 single-party states, 1 ...