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This book presents research, analysis, and reflections on the major
issues of Guatemalan development and democracy: the role of the
military, the involvement of Mayan communities in national
development, the possible emergence of more inclusive political
institutions and the roles of international forces and agencies in
Guatemalan social change. The chapters in this book are written by
some of the most prominent scholars and public policy experts from
Guatemala and the United States.
What does it mean to speak of 'national development' in the 1990s?
As a result of the tumultuous changes in global economic and
political structures, scholars and policymakers specializing in the
study of national development must reassess the interpretive models
they have relied upon in the past. This book brings together essays
by a distinguished group of social scientists that address the
dilemmas facing development theory today. These essays, grounded in
sociological research, reclaim the important role once played by
sociological theory in development studies. The collection provides
an overview of traditional theories of development, assessing their
strengths and weaknesses, and identifies the new actors, issues,
and processes that future analysis must address. The essays discuss
the impact of technological innovations in production and commerce,
the changing relations of states and markets, regional development
inequalities, and the emergence of new social groups as
participants in development processes. from the book Contents:
'Sociology and Development in the 1990s: Critical Challenges and
Empirical Trends,' by A. Douglas Kincaid and Alejandro Portes
'Rethinking Development Theory: Insights from East Asia and Latin
America,' by Gary Gereffi 'The New Dependency: Technological Change
and Socioeconomic Restructuring in Latin America,' by Manuel
Castells and Roberto Laserna 'Predatory, Developmental, and Other
Apparatuses: A Comparative Political Economy Perspective on the
Third World State,' by Peter B. Evans 'Regional Development Theory
and the Subordination of Extractive Peripheries,' by Stephen G.
Bunker 'Broadening the Scope: Gender and International Economic
Development,' by M. Patricia Fernandez Kelly 'Path Dependence and
Privatization Strategies in East Central Europe,' by David Stark
'Urbanization, Development, and the Household,' by Bryan R. Roberts
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