Political Development

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Routledge, 2007 M08 7 - 248 pages

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.

 

Contents

Introduction
1
1 An outline of political development
7
2 Structure and agency
23
3 The nation
36
4 The state
58
5 Civil and political rights
78
6 Democracy
96
7 Democratization
121
8 Institution building
143
9 State and regime failure
169
10 Violence and resolution
185
Conclusion
208
Notes
214
References
219
Index
231
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Bibliographic information

TitlePolitical Development
AuthorDamien Kingsbury
Editionillustrated
PublisherRoutledge, 2007
ISBN1134143680, 9781134143689
Length248 pages
  
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