State Power and Social Forces: Domination and Transformation in the Third World (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521461669 ISBN 13: 9780521461665

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1994

Synopsis

This is a collection of scholarly essays on state, society and politics in the Third World, with cases drawn from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America. The introductory chapter outlines the theoretical approach of the contributors and the concluding chapter summarizes the importance of their studies and the contribution of the volume to general theory in comparative politics. The book is relevant to the growing state theory literature in the social sciences and it puts forward a state-in-society approach to the study of political development.

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Book Description

Including cases drawn from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America, this collection of scholarly essays is relevant to the growing state theory literature in the social sciences, stressing a state-in-society approach to the study of political development.

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This eminently readable collection of high-quality, country-specific essays on Third World politics provides, through a variety of well-integrated themes and approaches, an examination of 'state theory' as it has been practiced in the past, and how it must be refined for the future.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521461669
• ISBN 13: 9780521461665
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 348
• Editor: Migdal Joel Samuel, Kohli Atul, Shue Vivienne