The Oxford Handbook of the Politics of Development

In many discussions of nations' development, we often focus on their economic and social development. Is it becoming wealthier? Is its society modernizing? Is it becoming more technologically sophisticated? Are social outcomes improving for the broad mass of the public? The process of development policy implementation, however, is always and inevitably political. Put simply, regime type matters when it comes to deciding on a course of development to follow. Further, political institutions matter. When a government's institutional capacity is low, the chances of success severely decline, regardless of the merits of the development plan. In The Oxford Handbook of the Politics of Development, two of America's leading political scientists on the issue, Carol Lancaster and Nicolas van de Walle, have assembled an international cast of leading scholars to craft a broad, state-of-the-art work on this vitally important topic. This volume is divided into five sections: major theories of the politics of development, organized historically (e.g. modernization theory, dependency theory, the Washington consensus of 'policies without politics,' etc.); key domestic factors and variables; key international factors and variables; political systems and structures; and geographical perspectives, inclusive of regional dynamics. A comprehensive and cross-regional examination on key issues of political development, this Handbook not only provides an authoritative synthesis of past scholarship, but also sets the agenda for future research in this discipline.

Auteur

The late Carol Lancaster was Dean and Professor of Politics at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. Nicolas van de Walle is Professor of Government at Cornell University.

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Preface, Nicolas van de Walle Part I: Major Theories and Intellectual histories 1. Modernization Theory: Does Economic Development Cause Democratization? Jose Antonio Cheibub and James Raymond Vreeland 2. Dependency Theory James Mahoney and Diana Rodriguez-Franco 3. Structuralism Elliott Green 4. Political Development Robert H. Bates 5. The Washington Consensus and the New Political Economy of Economic Reform Kevin Morrison 6. Penury Traps and Prosperity Tales: Why Some Countries Escape Poverty While Others Do Not M. Steven Fish Part II: Domestic Factors 7. Culture, Politics and Development Michael Woolcock 8. Religion, Politics and Economic Development: Synergies and Disconnects Katherine Marshall 9. Does Inequality Harm Economic Development and Democracy?: Accounting for Missing Values, Noncomparable Observations, and Endogeneity Christian Houle 10. Ethnicity and Development Nic Cheeseman 11. Civil Conflict and Development Håvard Hegre 12. The Politics of The resource Curse: a Review Michael L. Ross 13. Taxation and Development Mick Moore 14. How Do Governments Build Capabilities to Do Great Things?: Ten Cases, Two Competing Explanations, One Large Research Agenda Matt Andrews 15. Leadership and the Politics of Development Adrian Leftwich and Heather Lyne De Ver Part III: International Factors 16. Colonialism and Development in Africa Leander Heldring and James A. Robinson 17. Investment and Debt Layna Mosley 18. The Role of the State in Harnessing Trade-and-Investment for Development Purposes Theodore H. Moran 19. International Financial Institutions and Market Liberalization in the Developing World Stephen C. Nelson 20. Foreign Aid and Democratization in Developing Countries Danielle Resnick Part IV: Political Systems and Structures 21. Organizing for Prosperity: Collective Action, Political Parties, and the Political Economy of Development Philip Keefer 22. Missing Links in the Institutional Chain Anirudh Krishna 23. The Comparative Politics of Service Delivery in Developing Countries Evan S. Lieberman 24. Party systems and the Politics of Development Allen Hicken 25. Populism and Political Representation Kenneth M. Roberts Part V: Regional and Country Perspectives 26. Africa's Political Economy in the Contemporary Era Peter M. Lewis 27. The Politics of Development in Latin America and East Asia James W. McGuire 28. Development and Underdevelopment in the Middle East and North Africa Melani Cammett 29. Rethinking the Institutional Foundations of China's Hypergrowth: Official Incentives, Institutional Constraints, and Local Developmentalism Fubing Su, Ran Tao, and Dali L. Yang 30. The Politics of Growth in South Korea: Miracle, Crisis, and the New Market Economy Stephan Haggard and Myung-Koo Kang