Analyzing the Third World: Essays from Comparative Politics

by Norman Provizer

Overview

This book presents essays from Comparative Politics which analyze the Third World in terms of commonally shared intra-state dynamics. It draws attention to the internal attitudinal, behavioral, and organizational problems and transitions which characterize Third World countries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780870739439
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	01/30/1978
Series:	Essays from Comparative Politics
Pages:	510
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction and Overview: The Idea of the Third World Part I: Comparative Politics, Modernity, and Change 2. Comparative Politics and the Study of Government: The Search for Focus 3. The Change to Change: Modernization, Development, and Politics 4. The Attitudes of Modernity 5. The Problem of Identity, Selfhood, and Image in the New Nations: The Situation in Africa Part II: Politics and the Social Order 6. Political Clientelism and Development: A Preliminary Analysis 7. Participation and Efficacy: Aspects of Peasant Involvement in Political Mobilization 8. India’s Urban Constituencies Part III: The Organization of Politics 9. The Politics of Predevelopment 10. The National Electoral Process and State Building: Proposals for New Methods of Election in Uganda 11. Democracy and Social Mobilization in Lebanese Politics Part IV: Politics and the Men on Horseback 12. The Praetorian State and the Praetorian Army: Toward a Taxonomy of Civil-Military Relations in Developing Polities 13. Military and Society in East Africa: Thinking Again about Praetorianism 14. A Comparative Analysis of the Political and Economic Performance of Military and Civilian Regimes: A Cross-National Aggregate Study Part V: Leadership and Public Policy 15. The Comparative Analysis of Political Leadership 16. Leaders and Structures in 'Third World' Politics: Contrasting Approaches to Legitimacy 17. Revolutionary and Managerial Elites in Modernizing Regimes 18. Political Mainsprings of Economic Planning in the New Nations: The Modernization Imperative Versus Social Mobilization