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Managing Political Change - Social Scientists And The Third World (Hardcover)
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Managing Political Change - Social Scientists And The Third World (Hardcover)
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For nearly three decades, policymakers and students have been
concerned with Third World societies in transition. Conventional
interpretations of political change, formalized in studies of
political development, have dominated approaches to analyzing such
changes. Yet, argues the author, these interpretations have been
justly criticized as bankrupt and irrelevant to Third World
realities. Why are they reproduced? How can one explain the belief
that these approaches remain viable? These are some of the
questions addressed in this wideranging review of the literature of
political development and the paradigms that have guided analysis
of political change over the past thirty years. Examining how
political development theories are rooted in U.S. foreign policy,
domestic political trends, and changes in postwar political
science, Dr. Gendzier grounds the traditional approach to political
development in recent history and politics. Her analysis raises
questions about how development doctrine is related to foreign
policy, as well as noting development theory's debt to cold war
ideology and revisionist theories of liberal democracy. Dr.
Gendzier's interpretation sheds light on the reasons for the
current theoretical bias that favors approaching politics in terms
of psychology and culture-an approach that, she states, has had
devastating effects on our understanding of politics.
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