Democracies In Development
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Democracy And Development
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Author : Axel Hadenius
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1992-09-17
Democracy And Development written by Axel Hadenius and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-09-17 with Political Science categories.
This book is a thorough investigation into the requisites of democracy. Based on data from all 132 sovereign states of the Third World, it first establishes a scale to measure the level of democracy existing in these countries. The author discusses various interpretations of the meaning of political democracy, and emerges with a specification of its essential principles which includes such elements as the holding of elections to central decision-making organs, and the maintenance of certain fundamental political liberties. Theories concerning the requisites of democratic government are then examined in order to explain the manifest differences in the level of democracy among the states of the Third World. The author employs statistical techniques including regression analysis to test theories related to socio-economic conditions, demographic and cultural factors, and institutional arrangements. This book thus provides a uniquely wide-ranging examination both of the elements which constitute democracy, and of the factors which explain its varying prevalence.
Democracy Development And The Countryside
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Author : Ashutosh Varshney
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-09-18
Democracy Development And The Countryside written by Ashutosh Varshney and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-09-18 with Business & Economics categories.
Several scholars have written about how authoritarian or democratic political systems affect industrialization in the developing countries. There is no literature, however, on whether democracy makes a difference to the power and well-being of the countryside. Using India as a case where the longest-surviving democracy of the developing world exists, this book investigates how the countryside uses the political system to advance its interests. It is first argued that India's countryside has become quite powerful in the political system, exerting remarkable pressure on economic policy. The countryside is typically weak in the early stages of development, becoming powerful when the size of the rural sector defies this historical trend. But an important constraint on rural power stems from the inability of economic interests to overpower the abiding, ascriptive identities, and until an economic construction of politics completely overpowers identities and non-economic interests, farmers' power, though greater than ever before, will remain self-limited.
Democracy And Development
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Author : Adam Przeworski
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000-08-28
Democracy And Development written by Adam Przeworski and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-08-28 with Business & Economics categories.
Examines impact of political regimes on economic development between 1950 and 1990.
Education Democracy And Development
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Author : Clive Harber
language : en
Publisher: Symposium Books Ltd
Release Date : 2012-05-14
Education Democracy And Development written by Clive Harber and has been published by Symposium Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-14 with Education categories.
Education is often seen as the key agency in international development and poverty reduction. Frequently the emphasis is on the economic and social role of education in development. This book, on the other hand, is unusual in explicitly examining the political role of education in development. In particular, it sets out the theories, evidence and arguments concerning the potential and actual relationships between education and democracy and critically explores the contradictory role of formal education in both supporting and hindering democratic political development. A key theme of the book is the importance of considering the type and nature of the education actually provided and experienced – what goes on inside the ‘black box’ of education? Currently in developing countries and elsewhere this is often at odds with democratic principles but the book also provides many examples of successful democratic practice in schools in developing countries as well as discussing a detailed case study of South Africa where democratic change in education is a key aspect of the policy agenda.
Liberalism Democracy And Development
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Author : Sylvia Chan
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-10-08
Liberalism Democracy And Development written by Sylvia Chan and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-10-08 with Business & Economics categories.
ATSEA: Owen reserve.
The Democracy Advantage
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Author : Morton H. Halperin
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2005
The Democracy Advantage written by Morton H. Halperin and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Business & Economics categories.
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Democracy In Latin America
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Author : Ignacio Walker
language : en
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Release Date : 2013-04-30
Democracy In Latin America written by Ignacio Walker and has been published by University of Notre Dame Pess this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-30 with Law categories.
In 2009, Ignacio Walker—scholar, politician, and one of Latin America’s leading public intellectuals—published La Democracia en América Latina. Now available in English, with a new prologue, and significantly revised and updated for an English-speaking audience, Democracy in Latin America: Between Hope and Despair contributes to the necessary and urgent task of exploring both the possibilities and difficulties of establishing a stable democracy in Latin America. Walker argues that, throughout the past century, Latin American history has been marked by the search for responses or alternatives to the crisis of oligarchic rule and the struggle to replace the oligarchic order with a democratic one. After reviewing some of the principal theories of democracy based on an analysis of the interactions of political, economic, and social factors, Walker maintains that it is primarily the actors, institutions, and public policies—not structural determinants—that create progress or regression in Latin American democracy.
Development Against Democracy
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Author : Irene L. Gendzier
language : en
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Release Date : 2017-08-20
Development Against Democracy written by Irene L. Gendzier and has been published by Pluto Press (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-20 with Developing countries categories.
This new, updated edition of the influential Development Against Democracy is a critical guide to postwar studies of modernisation and development. In the mid-twentieth century, models of development studies were products of postwar American policy. They focused on newly independent states in the Global South, aiming to assure their pro-Western orientation by promoting economic growth, political reform and liberal democracy. However, this prevented real democracy and radical change.Today, projects of democracy have evolved in a radically different political environment that seems to have little in common with the postwar period. Development Against Democracy, however, testifies to a revealing continuity in foreign policy, including in justifications of 'humanitarian intervention' that echo those of counterinsurgency decades earlier in Latin America, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.Irene L. Gendzier argues that the fundamental ideas on which theories of modernisation and development rest have been resurrected in contemporary policy and its theories, representing the continuity of postwar US foreign policy in a world permanently altered by globalisation and its multiple discontents, the proliferation of 'failed states,' the unprecedented exodus of refugees, and Washington's declaration of a permanent war against terrorism.
The Oxford Handbook Of Political Representation In Liberal Democracies
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Author : Robert Rohrschneider
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
The Oxford Handbook Of Political Representation In Liberal Democracies written by Robert Rohrschneider and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Political Science categories.
"How can democracies effectively represent citizens? The goal of this Handbook is to evaluate comprehensively how well the interests and preferences of mass publics become represented by institutions in liberal democracies. It first explores how the idea and institutions of liberal democracies were formed over centuries and became enshrined in Western political systems. The contributors to this Handbook, made up of the world's leading scholars on the various aspects of political representation, examine how well the political elites and parties who are charged with the representation of the public interest meet their duties. Clearly, institutions often fail to live up to their own representation goals. With this in mind, the contributors explore several challenges to the way that the system of representation is organized in modern democracies. For example, actors such as parties and established elites face rising distrust among electorates. Also, the rise of international problems such as migration and environmentalism suggests that the focus of democracies on nation states may have to shift to a more international level. All told, this Handbook illuminates the normative and functional challenges faced by representative institutions in liberal democracies"--
Democracy And Development
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Author : Adrian Leftwich
language : en
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Release Date : 1996-01
Democracy And Development written by Adrian Leftwich and has been published by Wiley-Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01 with Political Science categories.
Is democracy a necessary condition for economic development or is it an outcome of it? This central question is addressed in chapters specially commissioned for this book.