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CHAPTER EIGHT: POLITICAL ECONOMY

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a. Is there any alternative to a liberal market economy? If so, what is it?

b. Is authoritarian rule the best route to economic development for low income countries?

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Hague & Harrop, 2007 edn, ch. 8.

C. Crouch and W. Streeck, eds, Political Economy of Modern Capitalism: Mapping Convergence and Diversity

B. de Mequita and G. Downs, ‘Democracy and Development’, Foreign Affairs, Sep/Oct 2005.

C. Johnson, Japan: Who Governs? The Rise of the Developmental State

P. Hall and D. Soskice, eds, Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage

S. Huntington and J. Nelson, No Easy Choice: Political Participation in Developing Countries

J. Perraton and B. Clift, eds, Where Are National Capitalisms Now?

A. Przeworski, et al., Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-Being in the World, 1950-1990

J. Ravenhill, ed., Global Political Economy

V. Schmidt, The Futures of European Capitalism ( Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002)