Adrian Leftwich
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 147253 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Adrian Leftwich |
| PRENOMES | Adrian |
| SOBRENOME | Leftwich |
| ASSINATURA | LEFTWICH A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of York |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 319 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1975 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Redefining Politics
Developmental States, Effective States, and Poverty Reduction
Beyond Institutions
Compared with economics, the engagement of political science with development studies and development policy is still (with notable exceptions) in its relative infancy. This can be illustrated by the manner in which fundamental issues of structure and agency in politics have barely been addressed in the development context. In the main, policy‐makers and researchers – perhaps unwittingly, or perhaps simply oblivious to the profound epistemologica…
Politics in command
Democracy and development
Since the end of the Cold War, two central foreign policy goals have risen to the top of the agenda of Western governments and development agencies. On the one hand, the reduction of poverty has increasingly dominated development thinking. Pro-poor economic growth, it is argued, is essential for these goals to be met. Moreover, it is also widely held that such growth and development is essential for reducing political instability, insecurity and …
Democracy and Development
In his article, Leftwich points out that for a democracy to be stable, there has to be an understanding that the losers in elections will not be wiped out by the winners.This inevitably ensures that stable democracies are conservative, based on consensus, and therefore unlikely to carry out the structural changes necessary for development to take off.While this is undoubtedly a problem for developing countries trying to institutionalise democracy…
Two Cheers for Democracy
Bringing politics back in
The few cases of rapid economic growth in the Third World in the last 30 years have occurred in democratic, quasi-democratic and non-democratic polities. They are thus clearly not a function of common regime type. I suggest that they are best explained by the special character of their states, understood 'as developmental states'. This article outlines some common characteristics of these states. However the forms and features of these states are…
States of Underdevelopment
This article surveys and compares major theories of the state in the third world. At first sight, few of these theories identify states which have any or even some of the characteristics of modern states as expressed in the two main traditions of state theorizing in Western political science, derived from the classics of Marx and Weber. All these theories, however, despite their variety and specificity, can be shown to confirm the continuing anal…
Governance, the State and the Politics of Development
Current western aid and development policy aims to promote 'good governance' in the third world. Few would deny that competent, open and fair administration is both a worthy aim and a self-evident requirement of development. However, the current orthodoxy clearly illustrates the technicist fallacy, which is implicit in the following quotation from Pope, that the effective administration or 'management' of development is essentially a technical or…
Governance, democracy and development in the Third World
(1993). Governance, democracy and development in the Third World. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 605-624
Is there a socialist path to socialism
In this article I explore some wider implications of the collapse of 'socialist development' in the Third World and its implications for the theory and practice of development in general and the politics of development in particular. I argue further that the current demise of 'socialism' on a world scale provides the opportunity for bringing the field of 'development studies' or Third World studies back into the mainstream of comparative social s…
Revolution and political change in the Third World
Journal Article Revolution and political change in the Third World Get access Revolution and political change in the Third World. Edited by Barry M. Schutzand Robert O. Slater. London: Adamantine Press. 1990. 260pp. Index. £28.50; ISBN 0 744 90025 5. Pb.:£14.50; ISBN 0 744 90026 3. Adrian Leftwich Adrian Leftwich 1University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 67, Issue 3,…
Pedagogy for the depressed
This article explores the extent to which current concern with teaching quality in the universities is likely to enhance serious pedagogic development. With particular reference to the Enterprise in Higher Education (EHE) initiatives of the Department of Employment, it suggests that while they may provide valuable incremental activities and useful add-on skills, they never can replace rigorous intellectual training, which occurs only through the …
The African bourgeoisie
Journal Article The African bourgeoisie: capitalist development in Nigeria, Kenya and the Ivory Coast Get access The African bourgeoisie: capitalist development in Nigeria, Kenya and the Ivory Coast. Edited By Paul M. Lubeck. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner. 1987. 414pp. Index. £24.95. ISBN 0 931 47786 7. Adrian Leftwich Adrian Leftwich 1University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affair…
Food aid
Journal Article Food aid: the challenge and the opportunity Get access Food aid: the challenge and the opportunity. By Hans Singer, John Woodand Tony JenningsOxford: Clarendon. 1987. 245pp. Index. £25.00; ISBN 0 19 828519 1. Pb.: £8.95; ISBN 0 19 818518 3. Adrian Leftwich Adrian Leftwich 1University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 64, Issue 2, Spring 1988, Pages 283–28…
Dilemmas of development
Journal Article Dilemmas of development: reflections on the counter-revolution in development theory and policy Get access Dilemmas of development: reflections on the counter-revolution in development theory and policy. By John ToyeOxford: Blackwell. 1987. 177pp. Index. £27.50; ISBN 0 631 14569 9. Pb.: £8.95; ISBN 0 631 14571 0. Adrian Leftwich Adrian Leftwich 1University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sc…
The end of the Third World
Room for manoeuvre
This article reports on three different experiments in alternative methods of undergraduate teaching in a Department of Politics at a British university over the last five years. The experiments showed that quite simple innovations in teaching methods can raise substantially the level and quality of student participation and performance in seminars as well as their writing skills, and that most students are capable of reaching and maintaining hig…
South African Politics and The West and South Africa
Journal Article South African Politics and The West and South Africa Get access South African Politics. By Leonard Thompsonand Andrew Prior. New Haven, London: Yale University Press. 1982. 255 pp. Index. £17.50.The West and South Africa. By James Barber, C. R. Hilland Jesmond Blumenfeld. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul for the Royal Institute of International Affairs. 1982. 106pp. Pb.: £3.95. Adrian Leftwich Adrian Leftwich 1University of York S…
Apartheid
Journal Article Apartheid: the facts Get access Apartheid: the facts. London: International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa/United Nations Centre Against Apartheid. 1983. 112 pp. Pb.: £3.00. Adrian Leftwich Adrian Leftwich 1University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 60, Issue 1, Winter 1983, Pages 167–168, https://doi.org/10.2307/2619019 Published: 01 January …
Social science, social relevance and the politics of educational development
South Africa
Journal Article South Africa: Time Running Out Get access South Africa: Time Running Out. (Report of the Study Commission on U.S. Policy Toward Southern Africa.) Berkeley, London: University of California Press. 1981. 517pp. £12.00. $25.00. Pb:£5.25. $9.95. Adrian Leftwich Adrian Leftwich 1University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 58, Issue 3, Summer 1982, Pages 546–5…
Which Way is South Africa Going? and Conflict and Compromise in South Africa
Journal Article Which Way is South Africa Going? and Conflict and Compromise in South Africa Get access Which Way is South Africa Going? By Gwendolen M. Carter. Bloomington, London: Indiana University Press. 1980. 162 pp. $12.95. £8.00.Conflict and Compromise in South Africa. Edited by Robert I. Rotberg and John Barratt. Lexington, Mass.: Lexington. 1980. 212 pp. £13.50. Adrian Leftwich Adrian Leftwich 1University of York Search for other works b…
Capital and Labour in South Africa
Capital and Labour in South Africa: Class Struggle in the 1970s Get access Capital and Labour in South Africa: Class Struggle in the 1970s. By D. du Toit. London: Kegan Paul International for the African Studies Centre, Leiden. 1981. 495 pp.£18.00. Adrian Leftwich Adrian Leftwich 1University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 58, Issue 1, Winter 1981, Pages 173–174, https…
Bringing politics back in
The few cases of rapid economic growth in the Third World in the last 30 years have occurred in democratic, quasi-democratic and non-democratic polities. They are thus clearly not a function of common regime type. I suggest that they are best explained by the special character of their states, understood 'as developmental states'. This article outlines some common characteristics of these states. However the forms and features of these states are…
Governance, democracy and development in the Third World
(1993). Governance, democracy and development in the Third World. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 605-624
Politics in command
Governance, the State and the Politics of Development
Current western aid and development policy aims to promote 'good governance' in the third world. Few would deny that competent, open and fair administration is both a worthy aim and a self-evident requirement of development. However, the current orthodoxy clearly illustrates the technicist fallacy, which is implicit in the following quotation from Pope, that the effective administration or 'management' of development is essentially a technical or…
Beyond Institutions
Compared with economics, the engagement of political science with development studies and development policy is still (with notable exceptions) in its relative infancy. This can be illustrated by the manner in which fundamental issues of structure and agency in politics have barely been addressed in the development context. In the main, policy‐makers and researchers – perhaps unwittingly, or perhaps simply oblivious to the profound epistemologica…
The end of the Third World
Democracy and development
Since the end of the Cold War, two central foreign policy goals have risen to the top of the agenda of Western governments and development agencies. On the one hand, the reduction of poverty has increasingly dominated development thinking. Pro-poor economic growth, it is argued, is essential for these goals to be met. Moreover, it is also widely held that such growth and development is essential for reducing political instability, insecurity and …
Dilemmas of development
Journal Article Dilemmas of development: reflections on the counter-revolution in development theory and policy Get access Dilemmas of development: reflections on the counter-revolution in development theory and policy. By John ToyeOxford: Blackwell. 1987. 177pp. Index. £27.50; ISBN 0 631 14569 9. Pb.: £8.95; ISBN 0 631 14571 0. Adrian Leftwich Adrian Leftwich 1University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sc…
States of Underdevelopment
This article surveys and compares major theories of the state in the third world. At first sight, few of these theories identify states which have any or even some of the characteristics of modern states as expressed in the two main traditions of state theorizing in Western political science, derived from the classics of Marx and Weber. All these theories, however, despite their variety and specificity, can be shown to confirm the continuing anal…
South Africa
Journal Article South Africa: Time Running Out Get access South Africa: Time Running Out. (Report of the Study Commission on U.S. Policy Toward Southern Africa.) Berkeley, London: University of California Press. 1981. 517pp. £12.00. $25.00. Pb:£5.25. $9.95. Adrian Leftwich Adrian Leftwich 1University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 58, Issue 3, Summer 1982, Pages 546–5…
Democracy and Development
In his article, Leftwich points out that for a democracy to be stable, there has to be an understanding that the losers in elections will not be wiped out by the winners.This inevitably ensures that stable democracies are conservative, based on consensus, and therefore unlikely to carry out the structural changes necessary for development to take off.While this is undoubtedly a problem for developing countries trying to institutionalise democracy…
Social science, social relevance and the politics of educational development
Room for manoeuvre
This article reports on three different experiments in alternative methods of undergraduate teaching in a Department of Politics at a British university over the last five years. The experiments showed that quite simple innovations in teaching methods can raise substantially the level and quality of student participation and performance in seminars as well as their writing skills, and that most students are capable of reaching and maintaining hig…
Capital and Labour in South Africa
Capital and Labour in South Africa: Class Struggle in the 1970s Get access Capital and Labour in South Africa: Class Struggle in the 1970s. By D. du Toit. London: Kegan Paul International for the African Studies Centre, Leiden. 1981. 495 pp.£18.00. Adrian Leftwich Adrian Leftwich 1University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 58, Issue 1, Winter 1981, Pages 173–174, https…
Two Cheers for Democracy
The African bourgeoisie
Journal Article The African bourgeoisie: capitalist development in Nigeria, Kenya and the Ivory Coast Get access The African bourgeoisie: capitalist development in Nigeria, Kenya and the Ivory Coast. Edited By Paul M. Lubeck. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner. 1987. 414pp. Index. £24.95. ISBN 0 931 47786 7. Adrian Leftwich Adrian Leftwich 1University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affair…
The Liberal Dilemma in South Africa
Journal Article The Liberal Dilemma in South Africa Get access The Liberal Dilemma in South Africa. Edited by Pierre L. van den Berghe. London: Croom Helm. 1979. 164 pp. £8.50. Adrian Leftwich Adrian Leftwich 1University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 56, Issue 3, Summer 1980, Pages 546–547, https://doi.org/10.2307/2617452 Published: 01 July 1980
Is there a socialist path to socialism
In this article I explore some wider implications of the collapse of 'socialist development' in the Third World and its implications for the theory and practice of development in general and the politics of development in particular. I argue further that the current demise of 'socialism' on a world scale provides the opportunity for bringing the field of 'development studies' or Third World studies back into the mainstream of comparative social s…
Pedagogy for the depressed
This article explores the extent to which current concern with teaching quality in the universities is likely to enhance serious pedagogic development. With particular reference to the Enterprise in Higher Education (EHE) initiatives of the Department of Employment, it suggests that while they may provide valuable incremental activities and useful add-on skills, they never can replace rigorous intellectual training, which occurs only through the …
Food aid
Journal Article Food aid: the challenge and the opportunity Get access Food aid: the challenge and the opportunity. By Hans Singer, John Woodand Tony JenningsOxford: Clarendon. 1987. 245pp. Index. £25.00; ISBN 0 19 828519 1. Pb.: £8.95; ISBN 0 19 818518 3. Adrian Leftwich Adrian Leftwich 1University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 64, Issue 2, Spring 1988, Pages 283–28…
South Africa
South Africa
Aid and Development in Southern Africa
Journal Article Aid and Development in Southern Africa Get access Aid and Development in Southern Africa, by David Jones. Croom Helm, London, in association with the Overseas Development Institute, 1977. 313pp. £11.95. ADRIAN LEFTWICH ADRIAN LEFTWICH University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 78, Issue 310, January 1979, Pages 138–139, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.…
The Liberal Dilemma in South Africa
Journal Article The Liberal Dilemma in South Africa Get access The Liberal Dilemma in South Africa. Edited by Pierre L. van den Berghe. London: Croom Helm. 1979. 164 pp. £8.50. Adrian Leftwich Adrian Leftwich 1University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 56, Issue 3, Summer 1980, Pages 546–547, https://doi.org/10.2307/2617452 Published: 01 July 1980
Which Way is South Africa Going? and Conflict and Compromise in South Africa
Journal Article Which Way is South Africa Going? and Conflict and Compromise in South Africa Get access Which Way is South Africa Going? By Gwendolen M. Carter. Bloomington, London: Indiana University Press. 1980. 162 pp. $12.95. £8.00.Conflict and Compromise in South Africa. Edited by Robert I. Rotberg and John Barratt. Lexington, Mass.: Lexington. 1980. 212 pp. £13.50. Adrian Leftwich Adrian Leftwich 1University of York Search for other works b…
Capital and Labour in South Africa
Capital and Labour in South Africa: Class Struggle in the 1970s Get access Capital and Labour in South Africa: Class Struggle in the 1970s. By D. du Toit. London: Kegan Paul International for the African Studies Centre, Leiden. 1981. 495 pp.£18.00. Adrian Leftwich Adrian Leftwich 1University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 58, Issue 1, Winter 1981, Pages 173–174, https…
Social science, social relevance and the politics of educational development
South Africa
Journal Article South Africa: Time Running Out Get access South Africa: Time Running Out. (Report of the Study Commission on U.S. Policy Toward Southern Africa.) Berkeley, London: University of California Press. 1981. 517pp. £12.00. $25.00. Pb:£5.25. $9.95. Adrian Leftwich Adrian Leftwich 1University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 58, Issue 3, Summer 1982, Pages 546–5…
South African Politics and The West and South Africa
Journal Article South African Politics and The West and South Africa Get access South African Politics. By Leonard Thompsonand Andrew Prior. New Haven, London: Yale University Press. 1982. 255 pp. Index. £17.50.The West and South Africa. By James Barber, C. R. Hilland Jesmond Blumenfeld. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul for the Royal Institute of International Affairs. 1982. 106pp. Pb.: £3.95. Adrian Leftwich Adrian Leftwich 1University of York S…
Apartheid
Journal Article Apartheid: the facts Get access Apartheid: the facts. London: International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa/United Nations Centre Against Apartheid. 1983. 112 pp. Pb.: £3.00. Adrian Leftwich Adrian Leftwich 1University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 60, Issue 1, Winter 1983, Pages 167–168, https://doi.org/10.2307/2619019 Published: 01 January …
The end of the Third World
Room for manoeuvre
This article reports on three different experiments in alternative methods of undergraduate teaching in a Department of Politics at a British university over the last five years. The experiments showed that quite simple innovations in teaching methods can raise substantially the level and quality of student participation and performance in seminars as well as their writing skills, and that most students are capable of reaching and maintaining hig…
The African bourgeoisie
Journal Article The African bourgeoisie: capitalist development in Nigeria, Kenya and the Ivory Coast Get access The African bourgeoisie: capitalist development in Nigeria, Kenya and the Ivory Coast. Edited By Paul M. Lubeck. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner. 1987. 414pp. Index. £24.95. ISBN 0 931 47786 7. Adrian Leftwich Adrian Leftwich 1University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affair…
Food aid
Journal Article Food aid: the challenge and the opportunity Get access Food aid: the challenge and the opportunity. By Hans Singer, John Woodand Tony JenningsOxford: Clarendon. 1987. 245pp. Index. £25.00; ISBN 0 19 828519 1. Pb.: £8.95; ISBN 0 19 818518 3. Adrian Leftwich Adrian Leftwich 1University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 64, Issue 2, Spring 1988, Pages 283–28…
Dilemmas of development
Journal Article Dilemmas of development: reflections on the counter-revolution in development theory and policy Get access Dilemmas of development: reflections on the counter-revolution in development theory and policy. By John ToyeOxford: Blackwell. 1987. 177pp. Index. £27.50; ISBN 0 631 14569 9. Pb.: £8.95; ISBN 0 631 14571 0. Adrian Leftwich Adrian Leftwich 1University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sc…
Revolution and political change in the Third World
Journal Article Revolution and political change in the Third World Get access Revolution and political change in the Third World. Edited by Barry M. Schutzand Robert O. Slater. London: Adamantine Press. 1990. 260pp. Index. £28.50; ISBN 0 744 90025 5. Pb.:£14.50; ISBN 0 744 90026 3. Adrian Leftwich Adrian Leftwich 1University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 67, Issue 3,…
Pedagogy for the depressed
This article explores the extent to which current concern with teaching quality in the universities is likely to enhance serious pedagogic development. With particular reference to the Enterprise in Higher Education (EHE) initiatives of the Department of Employment, it suggests that while they may provide valuable incremental activities and useful add-on skills, they never can replace rigorous intellectual training, which occurs only through the …
Is there a socialist path to socialism
In this article I explore some wider implications of the collapse of 'socialist development' in the Third World and its implications for the theory and practice of development in general and the politics of development in particular. I argue further that the current demise of 'socialism' on a world scale provides the opportunity for bringing the field of 'development studies' or Third World studies back into the mainstream of comparative social s…
Governance, democracy and development in the Third World
(1993). Governance, democracy and development in the Third World. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 605-624
States of Underdevelopment
This article surveys and compares major theories of the state in the third world. At first sight, few of these theories identify states which have any or even some of the characteristics of modern states as expressed in the two main traditions of state theorizing in Western political science, derived from the classics of Marx and Weber. All these theories, however, despite their variety and specificity, can be shown to confirm the continuing anal…
Governance, the State and the Politics of Development
Current western aid and development policy aims to promote 'good governance' in the third world. Few would deny that competent, open and fair administration is both a worthy aim and a self-evident requirement of development. However, the current orthodoxy clearly illustrates the technicist fallacy, which is implicit in the following quotation from Pope, that the effective administration or 'management' of development is essentially a technical or…
Bringing politics back in
The few cases of rapid economic growth in the Third World in the last 30 years have occurred in democratic, quasi-democratic and non-democratic polities. They are thus clearly not a function of common regime type. I suggest that they are best explained by the special character of their states, understood 'as developmental states'. This article outlines some common characteristics of these states. However the forms and features of these states are…
Two Cheers for Democracy
Democracy and Development
In his article, Leftwich points out that for a democracy to be stable, there has to be an understanding that the losers in elections will not be wiped out by the winners.This inevitably ensures that stable democracies are conservative, based on consensus, and therefore unlikely to carry out the structural changes necessary for development to take off.While this is undoubtedly a problem for developing countries trying to institutionalise democracy…
Politics in command
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