Author: Barbara Harriss-White
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135171939
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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This book illustrates the enduring relevance and vitality of the comparative political economy of development approach promoted among others by a group of social scientists in Oxford in the 1980s and 1990s. Contributors demonstrate the viability of this approach as researchers and academics become more convinced of the inadequacies of orthodox approaches to the understanding of development. Detailed case material obtained from comparative field research in Africa and South Asia informs analyses of exploitation in agriculture; the dynamics of rural poverty; seasonality; the non farm economy; class formation; labour and unfreedom; the gendering of the labour force; small scale production and contract farming; social networks in industrial clusters; stigma and discrimination in the rural and urban economy and its politics. Reasoned policy suggestions are made and an analysis of the comparative political economy of development approach is applied to the situation of Africa and South Asia. Aptly presenting the relation between theory and empirical material in a dynamic and interactive way, the book offers meaningful and powerful explanations of what is happening in the continent of Africa and the sub-continent of South Asia today. It will be of interest to researchers in the fields of development studies, rural sociology, political economy, policy and practice of development and Indian and African studies.
Author: Robert H. Bates
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108944612
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Those studying development often address the impact of government policies, but rarely the politics that generate these policies. A culmination of several decades of work by Robert Bates, among the most respected comparativists in political science, this compact volume seeks to rectify that omission. Bates addresses the political origins of prosperity and security and uncovers the root causes of under-development. Without the state there can be no development, but those who are endowed with the power of the state often use its power to appropriate the wealth and property of those they rule. When do those with power use it to safeguard rather than to despoil? Bates explores this question by analyzing motivations behind the behaviour of governments in the developing world, drawing on historical and anthropological insights, game theory, and his own field research in developing nations.
Author: Ben Clift
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350311774
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 699
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This is a book about how 21st-century capitalism really works. Modern economics strips away social, historical, and political context from analysis of 'the economic', but the economy is far too important to leave exclusively to the economists. Comparative Political Economy (CPE) is a much broader, richer intellectual undertaking which 're-embeds' the analysis of the economic within the social and political realm. This is at the heart of how to think like a political economist. This text maps the terrain and evolution of CPE, providing the analytical tools to explore the many variants of capitalism, unearthing their roots in competing visions of the desirable distribution of the fruits of growth. Connecting CPE systematically to the subfield of International Political Economy (IPE), the book explains how these visions generate ongoing political struggles over how to regulate and manage capitalism. This is the perfect introduction to the field for all students of CPE and IPE. New to this Edition: - Fully revised and updated throughout to take into account the latest empirical and theoretical developments in this fast-moving field - A brand New chapter on the political economy of inequality, populism, Trump & Brexit - New expanded 'how to use this book' aimed at student readers - More coverage of the types of economies covered, to move from an exclusively Western focus to cover developing and emerging global economies
Author: Jan-Erik Lane
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Comparative economics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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A revised and updated edition of this student text which takes account of the major changes in the world's politico-economic systems since the first edition, published in 1990. The book is a comparative analysis of states, considering their affluence, democracy and public policy, describing the polity and economy in a number of countries, and surveying the dominant theoretical approaches.
Author: Robert H. Bates
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108837506
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 127
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Explores the relationship between a government's political choices and its country's level of development.
Author: Jacob S. Hacker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316516369
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 487
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Book Description
Drawing together leading scholars, the book provides a revealing new map of the US political economy in cross-national perspective.
Author: Barry R. Weingast
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199548471
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
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Book Description
Over its lifetime, 'political economy' has had different meanings. This handbook views political economy as a synthesis of the various strands of social science, treating it as the methodology of economics applied to the analysis of political behaviour and institutions.
Author: R. Mascarenhas
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 033398353X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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In this study of the Comparative Political Economy of East and South Asia, the author adopts an interdisciplinary perspective on Third World development, thus recognising the importance of the interrelationships between the economy and the society and emphasising the need to direct attention to political, institutional and historical factors.
Author: Jan-Erik Lane
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Author: Ronald H Chilcote
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429975368
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Addressing the problem of searching for mainstream and alternative paradigms as a guide for comparative political enquiry, this work in particular introduces developments that have taken place over the last decade. These include the continuation of an ideological political science, methodological innovations such as rational choice and historical and post-behavioural approaches, new emphases on and links between political culture and participation, the recasting of modernization theory and the revitalization of class analysis, and a post-Keynesian political-economy point of view.
