SOCIETY, STATE AND MARKET A Guide to Competing Theories of Development 234mm X 152mm 400pp. 0-7969-1795-7 R160.00 2004 In print New edition Description: This major textbook, first published in 1997 and reprinted for the fourth time in 2004, is specifically written for students in development studies. It provides a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary picture of development research over the past generation, and is organised around four major themes: economic development and underdevelopment, politics and the state, socio-economic development and the state, and civil society and the development process. Table of contents: Part I:. Introduction 1. Development Studies as a subject area 2. The theoretical heritage and controversial issues in development research 3. Conceptions and dimensions of development Part II: Economic development and underdevelopment 4. Major theoretical currents in development economics 5. Theories of growth and modernisation 6. Structuralist theories and industrial development 7. Neo-Marxist theories of underdevelopment and dependency 8. Modes of production and social classes 9. The international division of labour and transnational corporations 10. Focus on agricultural development 11. Development with limited natural resources Part III: World politics and the state 12. Political development and state building 13. The political heritage and forms of regime 14. Social forces and forms of regime 15. Decentralisation and local-level politics Part IV: The state and socio-economic development 16. The state and the development process 17. The political economy of development 18. State or market? 19. Development and security Part V: Civil society and the development process 20. Dimensions of alternative development 21. Poverty and social development 22. The political economy of civil society 23. Ethnic identities, nationality and conflict 24. People-managed development Part VI:. Theory construction in development research 25. A critical assessment of development theories References Index of authors Subject index