Bates, Robert H. (1984) Agrarian Politics and Development. Social Science Working Paper, 513. California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA. (Unpublished) https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20170920-142841518
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Abstract
Rural insurrections in Third World nations transformed the study of agrarian politics into a recognized subfield of political development. They also discredited prevailing development theories and while rendering development studies a subfield of political economy. This essay reviews the major approaches to the study of agrarian politics. It emphasizes two major weaknesses: the assumption that development implies the demise of the rural sector and the inability of most "economic" approaches to incorporate institutional features of peasant societies, thereby creating a wasteful disjuncture between political economy and anthropology in the study of rural societies. The collective choice approach, it is argued, rectifies these weaknesses and generates a fruitful agenda for new research into the political economy of Third World nations.
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Group: | Social Science Working Papers |
Series Name: | Social Science Working Paper |
Issue or Number: | 513 |
Record Number: | CaltechAUTHORS:20170920-142841518 |
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Deposited By: | Jacquelyn Bussone |
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