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Social origins of development and underdevelopment: State and class in the Third World /

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Social origins of development and underdevelopment: State and class in the Third World // Letitia Lynn Lawson.
作者:	Lawson, Letitia Lynn,
面頁冊數:	1 electronic resource (277 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 57-05, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International57-05A.
標題:	Political science. -
電子資源:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9543925
ISBN:	9798209329626

Social origins of development and underdevelopment: State and class in the Third World /
Lawson, Letitia Lynn,

Social origins of development and underdevelopment: State and class in the Third World /Letitia Lynn Lawson. - 1 electronic resource (277 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 57-05, Section: A.

This dissertation develops a general theoretical framework to explain the divergent economic development experiences of Third World countries, emphasizing that political and social structures are important determinants of long-term economic development. Four ideal types of economic development emerge from the theoretical discussion--state-led development, development from above, feudal-syncretic development, and peasant underdevelopment. Each type is associated with slower economic growth and development than the one preceeding it. The research strategy employed to evaluate the validity of the theory relies upon mutually reinforcing statistical analysis and comparative historical case study. The statistical analyses establish broad comparative patterns, and provide a basis for rigorous case selection for the comparative historical analysis. The results of the statistical analysis support the centrality of political and social factors in Third World development, and further suggest that most traditional economic explanatory variables have no significant effect on long-term growth rates. Four countries, representing the range of values on the two principal independent variables (state capacity and agrarian elite strength), are then selected for comparative historical analysis. "State-led development" in China has been similar in many ways to 'capitalist' development in other East Asian countries, despite its 'socialist' orientation. The continuing economic power of the traditional agrarian elite in Mexico combined with relatively high state capacity to foster a pattern of "development from above" that involves greater tensions within the developmental coalition, and less rapid growth and development than in China. In Colombia, a strong progressive element within the traditional agrarian elite has facilitated perhaps the best possible economic outcome of monocrop export-led development, but Colombia has not experienced the substantial economic development of China and Mexico. Finally, the weak Ghanaian state has been unable to promote development in the post-colonial period, and in the absence of an agrarian elite capable of defending its economic interests, even the cocoa export sector has performed poorly. Overall the dissertation provides substantial support for the argument that state capacity and social structure are important in economic development, and suggests a number of specific mechanisms by which they directly and indirectly affect economic development.

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ISBN: 9798209329626Subjects--Topical Terms:

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