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Economic and Political Development
A Theoretical Approach and a Brazilian Case Study
Helio Jaguaribe
Harvard University Press
This original and enlightening exploration of economic and political development, by one of Latin America's most distinguished political scientists, was originally published in Brazil in 1962 and has now been translated into English by the author. Helio Jaguaribe offers first a theoretical discussion of the political requirements of economic development, emphasizing that sound government programs must be based upon a thorough understanding of a country's existing social and political structures. The author then provides a detailed, analytical study of the development process in Brazil from the colonial phase until today, and a comparison of the Brazilian experience with those of other Latin American countries.
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Military Institutions and Coercion in the Developing Nations
The Military in the Political Development of New Nations
Morris Janowitz
University of Chicago Press, 1988
This book includes Janowitz's seminal work, The Military in the Political Development of New Nations, with additional new analysis of Latin American nations and of the increasing significance of paramilitary and police forces in authoritarian regimes in developing nations.
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The Military Intervenes
Case Studies in Political Development
Henry Bienen
Russell Sage Foundation, 1968
Explores the mechanisms of military intervention and its consequences. The contributors examine a succession of coups, attempted coups, and established military regimes, with a view to evaluate the role of the military as a ruling group and an organization fostering political development. These studies cast strong doubt on the abilities of the military as a modernizing and stabilizing agent, raising important questions about our policies on military assistance and arms sales. Bienen makes an especially strong plea for a reassessment of our military and economic-political policies in order to determine whether both are working toward the same goals.
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The Modernity of Tradition
Political Development in India
Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph
University of Chicago Press, 1984
Stressing the variations in meaning of modernity and tradition, this work shows how in India traditional structures and norms have been adapted or transformed to serve the needs of a modernizing society. The persistence of traditional features within modernity, it suggests, answers a need of the human condition.

Three areas of Indian life are analyzed: social stratification, charismatic leadership, and law. The authors question whether objective historical conditions, such as advanced industrialization, urbanization, or literacy, are requisites for political modernization.
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The Political Development of American Debt Relief
Emily Zackin and Chloe N. Thurston
University of Chicago Press, 2024

A political history of the rise and fall of American debt relief.

Americans have a long history with debt. They also have a long history of mobilizing for debt relief. Throughout the nineteenth century, indebted citizens demanded government protection from their financial burdens, challenging readings of the Constitution that exalted property rights at the expense of the vulnerable. Their appeals shaped the country’s periodic experiments with state debt relief and federal bankruptcy law, constituting a pre-industrial safety net. Yet, the twentieth century saw the erosion of debtor politics and the eventual retrenchment of bankruptcy protections.

The Political Development of American Debt Relief traces how geographic, sectoral, and racial politics shaped debtor activism over time, enhancing our understanding of state-building, constitutionalism, and social policy.

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