[PDF] Political Dimensions Of Development eBook

Author : Bård-Anders Andreassen
Publisher : Intersentia NV
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 25,11 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
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Bsrd A. Andreassen is Professor at the Norwegian Center for Human Rights and Director of Research (human rights and development) at the Law Faculty, University of Oslo. --

Author : Silvio Borner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 40,49 MB
Release : 1998-04-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1349262846

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The state and its institutions are crucial for economic development: for better and for worse. This insight informs this important, up-to-date and authoritative survey of new trends in growth economics and the widely divergent economic performance of developing countries - for example, between Latin America and South-east Asia - which seemed to be similarly placed just a generation ago. The decisive role of the political dimension in economic growth seems clear but there are many challenges to be met in getting an analytical handle on the precise determinants and in testing empirically for this. This is the challenge taken up by the international team of contributors.

Author : Margaret G. W. Hardiman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 23,54 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Business & Economics
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Textbook on the role of social policy and social planning in economic and social development - explains the need for an integrated approach to overcome poverty and to control population growth and social problems arising from rapid urbanization; discusses health policy, educational development, housing needs and social services; reviews development aid strategy and policy issues. Bibliography.

Author : Iqbal Narain
Publisher :
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 42,3 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Political Science
ISBN :

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Author : Damien Kingsbury
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 46,75 MB
Release : 2007-08-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134143680

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This book fills a growing gap in the literature on international development by addressing the debates about good governance and institution-building within the context of political development. Political Development returns the key issues of human rights and democratization to the centre of the development debate and offers the reader an alternative to the conventional approach to, and definition of, the idea of ‘development’. Discussing political development in its broadest context, it includes chapters on democracy, institution-building, the state, state failure, nation, human rights and political violence. Damien Kingsbury, a leading expert on development and Southeast Asia, argues that ‘good governance’, in its common usage, is too narrowly defined and that good governance is not just about ensuring the integrity of a state’s financial arrangements, but that it goes to the core social and political issues of transparency and accountability, implying a range of social structures defined as ‘institutions’. Providing new insights into political development, this comprehensive text can be used on advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses in international development, comparative politics, political theory and international relations.

Author : Francis Fukuyama
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 41,35 MB
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1847652816

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Nations are not trapped by their pasts, but events that happened hundreds or even thousands of years ago continue to exert huge influence on present-day politics. If we are to understand the politics that we now take for granted, we need to understand its origins. Francis Fukuyama examines the paths that different societies have taken to reach their current forms of political order. This book starts with the very beginning of mankind and comes right up to the eve of the French and American revolutions, spanning such diverse disciplines as economics, anthropology and geography. The Origins of Political Order is a magisterial study on the emergence of mankind as a political animal, by one of the most eminent political thinkers writing today.

Author : Amartya Sen
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 34,85 MB
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 030787429X

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By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century. Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population. Releasing the idea of individual freedom from association with any particular historical, intellectual, political, or religious tradition, Sen clearly demonstrates its current applicability and possibilities. In the new global economy, where, despite unprecedented increases in overall opulence, the contemporary world denies elementary freedoms to vast numbers--perhaps even the majority of people--he concludes, it is still possible to practically and optimistically restain a sense of social accountability. Development as Freedom is essential reading.

Author : Manfred B. Steger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 45,33 MB
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0192589326

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We live today in an interconnected world in which ordinary people can became instant online celebrities to fans thousands of miles away, in which religious leaders can influence millions globally, in which humans are altering the climate and environment, and in which complex social forces intersect across continents. This is globalization. In the fifth edition of his bestselling Very Short Introduction Manfred B. Steger considers the major dimensions of globalization: economic, political, cultural, ideological, and ecological. He looks at its causes and effects, and engages with the hotly contested question of whether globalization is, ultimately, a good or a bad thing. From climate change to the Ebola virus, Donald Trump to Twitter, trade wars to China's growing global profile, Steger explores today's unprecedented levels of planetary integration as well as the recent challenges posed by resurgent national populism. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Dwight Waldo
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 39,34 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Political Science
ISBN :

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Collection of essays in social science and political science on the concept of cyclical linear and progressive time (theoretical time factor) related to social change, with particular reference to temporal dimensions in national planning strategy and public administration systems. References.