Development Against Democracy

Author : Jeffrey Witsoe
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226063508

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Democracy against Development by Jeffrey Witsoe Pdf

Hidden behind the much-touted success story of India’s emergence as an economic superpower is another, far more complex narrative of the nation’s recent history, one in which economic development is frequently countered by profoundly unsettling, and often violent, political movements. In Democracy against Development, Jeffrey Witsoe investigates this counter-narrative, uncovering an antagonistic relationship between recent democratic mobilization and development-oriented governance in India. Witsoe looks at the history of colonialism in India and its role in both shaping modern caste identities and linking locally powerful caste groups to state institutions, which has effectively created a postcolonial patronage state. He then looks at the rise of lower-caste politics in one of India’s poorest and most populous states, Bihar, showing how this increase in democratic participation has radically threatened the patronage state by systematically weakening its institutions and disrupting its development projects. By depicting democracy and development as they truly are in India—in tension—Witsoe reveals crucial new empirical and theoretical insights about the long-term trajectory of democratization in the larger postcolonial world.

Author : Irene L. Genozier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1884723047

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Author : Irene L. Gendzier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 1786801477

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Author : H. L. T. Quan
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780739170595

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Growth Against Democracy by H. L. T. Quan Pdf

Growth against Democracy: Savage Developmentalism in the Modern World, by H.L.T. Quan, is a radical critique of development as a modern project. Using three historical cases (Brazil-Japan, China-Africa, and US-Iraq), Quan probes the discursive practices of modern development, exploring the coercive and juridical dimensions of trade, diplomacy and war and their impact. This study builds on the critical works of neoliberalism, capitalist development, and empire to lay the groundwork for an honest assessment of neoliberal economics and foreign conducts and their impact on human life.

Author : Irene L. Gendzier
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-20
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 0745337295

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Development Against Democracy by Irene L. Gendzier Pdf

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.

Author : Gordon Crawford,Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781788112659

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Research Handbook on Democracy and Development by Gordon Crawford,Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai Pdf

Exploring and updating the controversial debates about the relationship between democracy and development, this Research Handbook provides clarification on the complex and nuanced interlinkages between political regime type and socio-economic development. Distinguished scholars examine a broad range of issues from multidisciplinary perspectives across Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.

Author : Antonis A. Ellinas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108415149

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Organizing Against Democracy by Antonis A. Ellinas Pdf

Using novel data, the book develops a new theory on how European far-right parties establish roots in local societies.

Author : H. L. T. Quan
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739170601

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Growth against Democracy by H. L. T. Quan Pdf

Growth against Democracy: Savage Developmentalism in the Modern World, by H.L.T. Quan, is a radical critique of development as a modern project. Using three historical cases (Brazil-Japan, China-Africa, and US-Iraq), Quan probes the discursive practices of modern development, exploring the coercive and juridical dimensions of trade, diplomacy and war and their impact. This study builds on the critical works of neoliberalism, capitalist development, and empire to lay the groundwork for an honest assessment of neoliberal economics and foreign conducts and their impact on human life.

Author : Adam Przeworski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000-08-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521793793

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Democracy and Development by Adam Przeworski Pdf

Examines impact of political regimes on economic development between 1950 and 1990.

Author : Jason Brennan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400888399

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Against Democracy by Jason Brennan Pdf

A bracingly provocative challenge to one of our most cherished ideas and institutions Most people believe democracy is a uniquely just form of government. They believe people have the right to an equal share of political power. And they believe that political participation is good for us—it empowers us, helps us get what we want, and tends to make us smarter, more virtuous, and more caring for one another. These are some of our most cherished ideas about democracy. But Jason Brennan says they are all wrong. In this trenchant book, Brennan argues that democracy should be judged by its results—and the results are not good enough. Just as defendants have a right to a fair trial, citizens have a right to competent government. But democracy is the rule of the ignorant and the irrational, and it all too often falls short. Furthermore, no one has a fundamental right to any share of political power, and exercising political power does most of us little good. On the contrary, a wide range of social science research shows that political participation and democratic deliberation actually tend to make people worse—more irrational, biased, and mean. Given this grim picture, Brennan argues that a new system of government—epistocracy, the rule of the knowledgeable—may be better than democracy, and that it's time to experiment and find out. A challenging critique of democracy and the first sustained defense of the rule of the knowledgeable, Against Democracy is essential reading for scholars and students of politics across the disciplines. Featuring a new preface that situates the book within the current political climate and discusses other alternatives beyond epistocracy, Against Democracy is a challenging critique of democracy and the first sustained defense of the rule of the knowledgeable.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004351851

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Development and Democracy: Relations in Conflict by Anonim Pdf

Developing societies failed to create their own technological base for progress. How did this affect the prospects for democracy? This volume examines the conflicting relations between technology and development as they unfold in a new and ever more challenging environment.

Author : Andrea Teti,Pamela Abbott,Valeria Talbot,Paolo Maggiolini
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030338831

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Democratisation against Democracy by Andrea Teti,Pamela Abbott,Valeria Talbot,Paolo Maggiolini Pdf

This book explains why the EU is not a ‘normative actor’ in the Southern Mediterranean, and how and why EU democracy promotion fails. Drawing on a combination of discourse analysis of EU policy documents and evidence from opinion polls showing ‘what the people want’, the book shows EU policy fails because the EU promotes a conception of democracy which people do not share. Likewise, the EU’s strategies for economic development are misconceived because they do not reflect the people’s preferences for greater social justice and reducing inequalities. This double failure highlights a paradox of EU democracy promotion: while nominally emancipatory, it de facto undermines the very transitions to democracy and inclusive development it aims to pursue.

Author : Anna Lekvall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9186565990

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Development First, Democracy Later? by Anna Lekvall Pdf

"Development First, Democracy Later? explores how politics and democracy plays out in reality in Africa as the major aid-receiving continent. It points to the seriously challenged political situations that aid countries engage in. Moreover, it looks at the Paris agenda aid modalities from a democracy perspective. It illustrates the on-and-off relationship with democracy concerns in the aid system. In addition, the book points to the challenges of aid, which are too often, based on a wrongful assumption that development comes first and democracy only (hopefully) later. The book brings to question the fundamental construction of the aid system and the values that drive it. While making a push for seeing the value of democracy on its own merits, as well as its advantages for development, the book poses some serious questions on the way the aid system is built and argues for substantive changes in the aid landscape. Issues raised are relevant for many discussions - from China as a development model, the aid system and - not least - for the debate on the post-2015 Millennium Development Goals."--

Author : Bernard Berendsen
Publisher : Kit Pub
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131736683

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Democracy and Development by Bernard Berendsen Pdf

This book addresses questions like: what comes first, democracy or development; is there a choice between democracy and stability; can democracy be promoted from outside; should we focus on the introduction of democratic institutions or on the promotion of democratic culture and are different cultures equally compatible with democratic systems of government? Finally, should the promotion of democracy be seen as part of regular development co-operation and what are the respective roles of national governments, international organisations and civil society? The book suggests there is a positive relationship between the two: more democracy implies more openness and checks and balances, more accountability and less corruption and all this would be conducive to sustainable development. Based on a series of lectures organised by the Society of International Development (SID), the Netherlands.

Author : Kirk S. Bowman
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271046464

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Militarization, Democracy, and Development by Kirk S. Bowman Pdf

Do Third World countries benefit from having large militaries, or does this impede their development? Kirk Bowman uses statistical analysis to demonstrate that militarization has had a particularly malignant impact in this region. For his quantitative comparison he draws on longitudinal data for a sample of 76 developing countries and for 18 Latin American nations. To illuminate the causal mechanisms at work, Bowman offers a detailed comparison of Costa Rica and Honduras between 1948 and 1998. The case studies not only serve to bolster his general argument about the harmful effects of militarization but also provide many new insights into the processes of democratic consolidation and economic transformation in these two Central American countries.