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| Title | : | States of Development: On the Primacy of Politics in Development |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.47 (907 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0745608434 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-05 |
| Language | : | English |
A corrective to a previous review Hotlunch I sympathise with the previous reviewer (Nanna Nofri), but the allocation of 1 star is a comment on Amazon's service rather than on the contents of Leftwich'es book. Leftwich is in fact one of the most thoughtful commentators on the developmental state and he is well worth reading.. Esi Morisson said States of Development: On the primacy of politics in Development. I returned this product / book on 8/16 and I am still waiting for a refund. That note I sent to the consumer report was a complaint not a purchase. I need someone to address this situation of my refund. when are they going to refund my money?
His conclusions are far from comforting, but constitute an invitation to a more realistic and politically aware analysis of the conditions and possibilities of development in different societies.' International Affairs"Adrian Leftwich's States of Development is a remarkable study of the appropriateness of past development policies, with an eye to the political environment in which they have operated." The Round Table. 'Comfortable as it might be to think of development and democracy as compatible and mutually reinforcing, Leftwich's
The spectre of poverty, disease and ignorance still haunts much of the developing world today. Others, such as Peru, Zaire, India and the Philippines, appear incapable of doing so. States of Development will be essential reading for students and scholars in development studies and politics.. Focusing on the politics and states of a wide range of developing societies, Leftwich generates a model of the 'developmental state' as a particular sub-type of state in the modern world, and argues the case for the primacy of politics in development. Some societies, such as Botswana, Mauritius, Malaysia and Korea, are successfully transforming the material life of the majority of their citizens, though not always without costs in terms of human rights. In this widely comparative study, Adrian Leftwich examines why this has happened. But not everywhere. He challenges a number of contemporary orthodoxies in
. Adrian Leftwich is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of York
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