ABSTRACT

This book presents essays from Comparative Politics which analyze the Third World in terms of commonally shared intra-state dynamics. It draws attention to the internal attitudinal, behavioral, and organizational problems and transitions which characterize Third World countries.

chapter |1 pages

Introduction and Overview

chapter |8 pages

The Idea of the Third World

part |102 pages

Comparative Politics Modernity and Change

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

chapter |12 pages

Comparative Politics and the Study of Government

The Search for Focus

chapter |40 pages

The Change to Change

Modernization, Development, and Politics

chapter |27 pages

The Attitudes of Modernity

chapter |18 pages

The Problem of Identity, Selfhood, and Image in the New Nations

The Situation in Africa

part |180 pages

Politics and the Social Order

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

chapter |30 pages

Political Clientelism And Development

A Preliminary Analysis

chapter |27 pages

Participation and Efficacy

Aspects of Peasant Involvement in Political Mobilization

part

The Organization of Politics

chapter |7 pages

Introduction

chapter |22 pages

The National Electoral Process and State Building

Proposals for New Methods of Election in Uganda

part IV|90 pages

Politics and the Men On Horseback

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

chapter |23 pages

The Praetorian State and the Praetorian Army

Toward a Taxonomy of Civil-Military Relations in Developing Polities

chapter |29 pages

Military and Society In East Africa

Thinking Again about Praetorianism

part V|104 pages

Leadership And Public Policy

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

chapter |25 pages

Leaders and Structures In Third World’ Politics

Contrasting Approaches to Legitimacy

chapter |27 pages

Political Mainsprings of Economic Planning in the New Nations

The Modernization Imperative versus Social Mobilization