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Author Gendzier, Irene L., author.

Title Development against democracy : manipulating political change in the third world / Irene L. Gendzier ; introduction by Robert Vitalis ; foreword by Thomas Ferguson.

Publication Info. London : Pluto Press, 2017.
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Edition New edition.
Description 1 online resource (218 pages)
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Note "Originally published 1985 by Westview Press as Managing Political Change: Social Scientists and the Third World. Reissued 1995 by The Tyrone Press as Development Against Democracy: Manipulating Political Change in the Third World"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The "new look" in development studies -- Making connections -- Discourse on development -- Transparent boundaries : from policies to studies of political development -- Defining the parameters of discourse -- The academic translation : liberal democratic theory and interpretations of political development -- The impossible task of theories of political development.
Summary "This new, updated edition of the influential Development Against Democracy is a critical guide to postwar studies of modernization 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 claiming to promote economic growth and democracy, while masking U.S. intervention to block radical change. Irene L. Gendzier argues that the fundamental ideas on which theories of modernization and development rest have been resurrected in contemporary policy and its theories, representing the continuity of postwar U.S. foreign policy and its claims of American exceptionalism in a world permanently altered by globalization and its multiple discontents, the proliferation of 'failed states, ' the unprecedented exodus of refugees, and Washington's declaration of a permanent 'war against terrorism'."-- Provided by publisher
Note Print version record.
Subject Developing countries -- Politics and government.
Developing countries -- Research -- United States.
Political science -- United States.
Political development.
Développement politique.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
Political development
Political science
Politics and government
Research
Developing countries
United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Added Author Vitalis, Robert, 1955- writer of introduction.
Ferguson, Thomas, 1949- writer of foreword.
Other Form: Print version: Gendzier, Irene L. Managing political change. Development against democracy. New edition. London : Pluto Press, 2017 0745337287 (OCoLC)968758441
ISBN 9781786801456 (PDF eBook)
1786801450 (PDF eBook)
9781786801463 (EPUB eBook)
1786801469 (EPUB eBook)
9781786801470 (Kindle eBook)
1786801477 (Kindle eBook)
9780745337296 (hardback)
0745337295 (hardback)
9780745337289 (paperback)
0745337287 (paperback)
Standard No. AU@ 000062535103
AU@ 000060989394

 
    
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