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| Preface | p. xiii |
| Understanding Underdevelopment | p. 1 |
| Third World Commonalities: The Nature of Underdevelopment | p. 2 |
| Economic Underdevelopment | p. 3 |
| Social Underdevelopment | p. 5 |
| Political Underdevelopment | p. 8 |
| Some Relationships among the Components of Development | p. 10 |
| The Causes of Underdevelopment | p. 11 |
| Modernization Theory and the I... MORE | p. 12 |
| Dependency Theory | p. 15 |
| Modernization and Dependency Theory Compared | p. 16 |
| Contemporary Perspectives | p. 18 |
| Discussion Questions | p. 19 |
| Notes | p. 19 |
| Democratic Change and the Change to Democracy | p. 22 |
| Democracy Defined | p. 24 |
| Democratic Transition and Consolidation | p. 25 |
| Authoritarian Beginnings | p. 26 |
| Justifying Authoritarian Rule | p. 27 |
| The Third Wave and Its Effect on the Third World | p. 28 |
| International Causes and Consequences of the Third Wave | p. 30 |
| The Prerequisites of Democracy in Individual Countries | p. 31 |
| Social and Economic Modernization | p. 32 |
| Class Structure | p. 33 |
| Political Culture | p. 34 |
| How Do Democracies Perform? Public Policy Compared | p. 38 |
| Conclusion: Democratic Consolidation | p. 40 |
| Discussion Questions | p. 41 |
| Notes | p. 42 |
| Religion and Politics | p. 45 |
| The Meeting of Church and State | p. 46 |
| Great Religions of the Third World | p. 47 |
| Religion, Modernity, and Secularization | p. 48 |
| Structural and Theological Bases of Church-State Relations | p. 50 |
| Islam | p. 51 |
| Catholicism | p. 52 |
| Hinduism and Buddhism | p. 53 |
| Religious Fundamentalism: Islam and Hinduism | p. 54 |
| Defining and Explaining Fundamentalism | p. 55 |
| Fundamentalists: Radical and Conservative | p. 55 |
| "Sacred Rage and the Iranian Revolution": Radical Fundamentalism as a Reaction to Western-Style Modernization | p. 56 |
| Al Qaeda and Militant Islamic Fundamentalism | p. 59 |
| Radical Hindu Fundamentalism | p. 63 |
| The Progressive Catholic Church | p. 65 |
| Religion and Politics in the Developing World: Looking to the Future | p. 68 |
| Conclusion: Religion and Democracy | p. 70 |
| Discussion Questions | p. 71 |
| Notes | p. 71 |
| The Politics of Cultural Pluralism and Ethnic Conflict | p. 76 |
| Defining Ethnicity | p. 78 |
| Ethnic and State Boundaries | p. 80 |
| Types of Ethnic-Cultural Divisions | p. 81 |
| Nationality | p. 81 |
| Tribe | p. 83 |
| Race | p. 85 |
| Religion | p. 88 |
| Independence, Modernization, and Ethnic Conflict | p. 91 |
| Levels of Interethnic Conflict | p. 92 |
| Relative Harmony | p. 92 |
| Uneasy Balance | p. 93 |
| Enforced Hierarchy (Ethnic Dominance) | p. 94 |
| Systematic Violence | p. 96 |
| Outcomes and Resolutions | p. 96 |
| Power Sharing: Federalism and Consociationalism | p. 97 |
| Secession | p. 99 |
| Outside Intervention | p. 100 |
| Outside Intervention in Iraq: The Effect of the U.S. Occupation on Ethnic Relations | p. 103 |
| Settlement through Exhaustion | p. 105 |
| Toward a Peaceful Resolution of Conflict | p. 105 |
| Conclusion: Ethnic Pluralism and Democracy | p. 106 |
| Discussion Questions | p. 108 |
| Notes | p. 109 |
| Women and Development | p. 114 |
| The Political and Socioeconomic Status of Third World Women | p. 115 |
| Westernization, Modernization, and the Economic Status of Women | p. 118 |
| Women in the Countryside | p. 120 |
| Urbanization and the Status of Women | p. 121 |
| Women and Politics | p. 123 |
| Women's Political Activism at the Grass Roots | p. 125 |
| Women as National Political Leaders | p. 128 |
| Reserved Seats and Quotas: Female Representation in Parliament and the Cabinet | p. 131 |
| Women and Revolutionary Change | p. 137 |
| The Status of Women: The Roles of Modernization, Globalization, and Regime Type | p. 139 |
| Conclusion: Democracy and the Role of Women in Society | p. 141 |
| Discussion Questions | p. 142 |
| Notes | p. 143 |
| Agrarian Reform and the Politics of Rural Change | p. 148 |
| Rural Class Structures | p. 149 |
| Peasant Politics | p. 150 |
| The Politics of Agrarian Reform | p. 153 |
| Patterns of Land Concentration | p. 154 |
| The Case for Agrarian Reform | p. 154 |
| Types of Agrarian Reform | p. 157 |
| Externally Imposed Reform | p. 157 |
| Revolutionary Transformation | p. 158 |
| Moderate Reformism | p. 161 |
| The Limits of Agrarian Reform | p. 162 |
| Other Approaches and Issues | p. 164 |
| Crop Pricing | p. 164 |
| Conclusion: Democracy and Rural Reform | p. 165 |
| Discussion Questions | p. 166 |
| Notes | p. 166 |
| Rapid Urbanization and the Politics of the Urban Poor | p. 170 |
| The Political Consequences of Urban Growth | p. 173 |
| The Struggle for Employment | p. 173 |
| The Struggle for Housing among the Urban Poor | p. 177 |
| Public Housing and the Role of the State | p. 178 |
| Spontaneous Housing | p. 180 |
| Sites-and-Services Programs | p. 181 |
| The Struggle Against Urban Crime | p. 182 |
| The Politics of the Urban Poor: Conflicting Images | p. 183 |
| Forms of Political Expression among the Urban Poor | p. 187 |
| Individual Political Behavior | p. 187 |
| Collective Goals: Housing and Urban Services | p. 188 |
| Radical Political Behavior | p. 191 |
| Conclusion: Future Urban Growth and Democratic Politics | p. 192 |
| Discussion Questions | p. 193 |
| Notes | p. 193 |
| Revolutionary Change | p. 198 |
| Defining Revolution | p. 199 |
| Underlying Causes of Revolution | p. 201 |
| Inexorable Historical Forces | p. 201 |
| Regime Decay | p. 202 |
| Challenge from Below | p. 204 |
| Causes of Revolution: A Summary | p. 207 |
| Levels of Popular Support | p. 208 |
| Peasants as Revolutionaries | p. 210 |
| Why Peasants Rebel | p. 211 |
| Which Peasants Rebel | p. 211 |
| Revolutionary Leadership | p. 212 |
| Revolutionaries in Power | p. 214 |
| Conclusion: Revolutionary Change and Democracy | p. 217 |
| Discussion Questions | p. 219 |
| Notes | p. 219 |
| Soldiers and Politics | p. 223 |
| The Causes of Military Intervention | p. 225 |
| The Nature of the Armed Forces | p. 225 |
| The Nature of Civil Society | p. 226 |
| Progressive Soldiers and Military Conservatives | p. 229 |
| The Goals of Military Regimes | p. 231 |
| Personalistic Regimes | p. 231 |
| Institutional Military Regimes | p. 233 |
| The Accomplishments and Failures of Military Regimes | p. 237 |
| Combating Corruption | p. 237 |
| Defending Corporate Interests | p. 238 |
| Patterns in Military Spending | p. 239 |
| Establishing Stability | p. 242 |
| Economic Development | p. 243 |
| Military Withdrawal from Politics | p. 245 |
| New Roles for the Armed Forces | p. 247 |
| Conclusion: Democracy and the Military | p. 247 |
| Discussion Questions | p. 249 |
| Notes | p. 249 |
| The Political Economy of Third World Development | p. 253 |
| The Role of the State | p. 254 |
| The Command Economy | p. 255 |
| Latin American Statism | p. 257 |
| East Asia's Developmental State | p. 261 |
| The Neoclassical Ideal | p. 263 |
| Finding a Proper Role for the State | p. 265 |
| Industrialization Strategies | p. 265 |
| Import-Substituting Industrialization (ISI) | p. 266 |
| Export-Oriented Industrialization (EOI) | p. 268 |
| East and Southeast Asia's Economic Crisis | p. 269 |
| The Onset of the Crisis | p. 269 |
| Causes of the Asian Crisis | p. 270 |
| Consequences of the 1997 Crash | p. 271 |
| Implications for East Asia's Growth Model | p. 271 |
| East Asia's Recovery | p. 272 |
| Growth with Equity | p. 273 |
| Economic Development and the Environment | p. 277 |
| The Costs of Growth | p. 277 |
| Environmental Decay as a Third World Problem | p. 278 |
| Environmental Decay in the LDCs as a Global Problem | p. 279 |
| The Search for Sustainable Development | p. 279 |
| Some Signs of Progress | p. 281 |
| Finding the Right Mix | p. 282 |
| Conclusion: Democracy and Economic Development | p. 283 |
| Discussion Questions | p. 283 |
| Notes | p. 284 |
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