Society, State and Market
A Guide to Competing Theories of Development
This major new textbook has been specifically written for students of development studies. It provides a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary picture of development research over the past generation, and is organized around four major themes: economic development and underdevelopment, politics and the state, socio-economic development and the state and civil society and the development process. It is the only textbook in this field to present the full range of theoretical approaches and current debates.
About the book
This major new textbook has been specifically written for students of development studies. It provides a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary picture of development research over the past generation, and is organized around four major themes: economic development and underdevelopment, politics and the state, socio-economic development and the state and civil society and the development process. It is the only textbook in this field to present the full range of theoretical approaches and current debates.
What people are saying
Professor John, Director, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex“…valuable treatment of the social, political and international dimensions of development thought, as well as the economic aspects.”
Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Preface
- PART I
- Introduction
- Development Studies as a Subject Area
- The Theoretical Heritage and Controversial Issues in Development Research
- Conceptions and Dimensions of Development
- PART II: Economic Development and Underdevelopment
- Major Theoretical Currents in Development Economics
- Theories of Growth and Modernisation
- Structuralist Theories and Industrial Development
- Neo-Marxist Theories of Underdevelopment and Dependency
- Modes of Production and Social Classes
- The International Division of Labour and Transnational Corporations
- Focus on Agricultural Development
- Development with Limited Natural Resources
- PART III: Third World Politics and the State
- Political Development and State Building
- The Political Heritage and Forms of Regime
- Social Forces and Forms of Regime
- Decentralisation and Local-level Politics
- PART IV: The State and Socio-economic Development
- The Political Economy of Development
- State or Market?
- Development and Security
- PART V: Civil Society and the Development Process
- Dimensions of Alternative Development
- Poverty and Social Development
- The Political Economy of Civil Society
- Ethnic Identities, Nationality and Conflict
- People-managed Development
- PART VI: Theory Construction in Development Research
- A Critical Assessment of Development Theories
- Bibliography
- Name Index
- Subject Index
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