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Political Change and Underdevelopment

A Critical Introduction to Third World Politics

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  • © 1998

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Authors:
  1. Vicky Randall
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  2. Robin Theobald
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  • New edition of a highly successful text now revised and updated throughout to provide coverage of new debates and developments
    Combines full coverage of theoretical debates with effective use of a wide range of case studies

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Vicky Randall, Robin Theobald
    Pages 1-16

  3. Towards a Politics of Modernisation and Development

    • Vicky Randall, Robin Theobald
    Pages 17-44

  4. Modernisation Revisionism

    • Vicky Randall, Robin Theobald
    Pages 45-85

  5. The Emergence of a Politics of Order

    • Vicky Randall, Robin Theobald
    Pages 86-119

  6. Dependency Theory and the Study of Politics

    • Vicky Randall, Robin Theobald
    Pages 120-165

  7. The State and Civil Society

    • Vicky Randall, Robin Theobald
    Pages 166-221

  8. Globalisation and the Study of Political Change

    • Vicky Randall, Robin Theobald
    Pages 222-265

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 266-294
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About this book

This clearly-written and comprehensive introductory text provides a critical review of the principal theoretical approaches to the study of Third World politics in the second half of the twentieth century. Arguments are illustrated by examples drawn from a wide and diverse range of regions and countries. All chapters have been extensively amended and updated for this substantially revised edition to include such developments as the debt crisis and democratisation, and a new chapter has been added on the impact of globalisation on the postcolonial world.

About the authors

VICKY RANDALL is Reader in Government, University of Essex

ROBIN THEOBALD is Principal Lecturer in Sociology, University of Westminster and Visiting Lecturer, City University, London

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