Beschreibung:
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
Also of Interest -- Preface -- Making Connections -- Discourse on Development -- Transparent Boundaries: From Policies to Studies of Political Development -- Defining the Parameters of Discourse -- The Academic Translation: Liberal Democratic Theory and Interpretations of Political Development -- The Impossible Task of Theories of Political Development -- Epilogue