The Oxford Handbook of the Politics of Development
by Carol Lancaster
2020-12-29 15:02:42
The Oxford Handbook of the Politics of Development
by Carol Lancaster
2020-12-29 15:02:42
In many discussions of nations'' development, we often focus on their economic and social development. Is it becoming wealthier? Is its society modernizing? Is it becoming more technologically sophisticated? Are social outcomes improving for the broa...
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In many discussions of nations'' development, we often focus on their economic and social development. Is it becoming wealthier? Is its society modernizing? Is it becoming more technologically sophisticated? Are social outcomes improving for the broad mass of the public? The process ofdevelopment policy implementation, however, is always and inevitably political. Put simply, regime type matters when it comes to deciding on a course of development to follow. Further, political institutions matter. When a government''s institutional capacity is low, the chances of success severelydecline, regardless of the merits of the development plan.In The Oxford Handbook of the Politics of Development, two of America''s leading political scientists on the issue, Carol Lancaster and Nicolas van de Walle, have assembled an international cast of leading scholars to craft a broad, state-of-the-art work on this vitally important topic. This volumeis divided into five sections: major theories of the politics of development, organized historically (e.g. modernization theory, dependency theory, the Washington consensus of "policies without politics," etc.); key domestic factors and variables; key international factors and variables; politicalsystems and structures; and geographical perspectives, inclusive of regional dynamics. A comprehensive and cross-regional examination on key issues of political development, this Handbook not only provides an authoritative synthesis of past scholarship, but also sets the agenda for future researchin this discipline.
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