Understanding Third World Politics

Abstract

This book provides a critical introduction to the attempts of political scientists to understand the politics of less developed countries. While it provides a very wide range of empirical examples from many countries in several continents its central focus is on the issues and controversies that have dominated the social science of Third World politics since the 1950s and in particular on assessing the main theories that have been formulated that attempt to make systematic and rigourous sense of political development.