Patterns of Development and Underdevelopment
Toward a Comparison
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6274189 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Bratton (Michigan State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 333 |
| Publication date | 1982-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8833 • E-ISSN: 1468-2478 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2600425 |
| OpenAlex | W2321249071 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 26 |
The purpose of this article is to propose a comparative analytic framework to account for the wide range of contemporary experiences of development and underdevelopment. The concept of dependency, always general and now stretched beyond useful limits, can only depict the Third World in crude universal terms or as a bimodal construct (allowing for dependent development). A typology of three historical and four postcolonial patterns of change is offered as an alternative. The typology is deduced from the different ways in which the autonomous processes of the formation of capital, of states, and of classes interact and combine over time. The four contemporary patterns (authoritarian, nationalist, dependent, and decline) are then justified empirically with reference to an illustrative aggregate data set and by descriptions of the dynamic features and contradictions of each type. The theoretical argument is that indigenous social interests and state policies act upon international dependency situations to broaden options and create distinctive patterns of change
Argument (complex analysis · Authoritarianism · Capital (architecture · Construct (python library · Democracy · Dependency (UML · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Epistemology · Geography · Indigenous · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · State (computer science · Typology · Underdevelopment · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · International Development and Aid · Law · World Systems and Global Transformations
Neopatrimonial Regimes and Political Transitions in Africa
Conceptualising Third World politics
Beyond the State
Inequality in the Third World
Zimbabwe's 1985 Elections
Regional Conflict Formations
Ethnicity as the Resilient Paradigm for Africa
Continuity and Discontinuity in Zimbabwe's Development History
The theory and method of comparative area studies
Underdevelopment in Kenya
Dependent Accumulation and Underdevelopment
The capitalist world-economy
Dependent Development
The Nature of Class Domination in Africa
The ideas of Samir Amin
Marxism and Politics
Development and Underdevelopment
From Rostow to Gunder Frank
Dependency
Crisis
The Development of Corporate Capitalism in Kenya, 1918-1977
Wallerstein's World Capitalist System
Political power and social classes
The modern world-system
The Underdevelopment of Development Literature
Interstate System and Capitalist World-Economy
States and Social Revolutions
Income Inequality
Growing from the roots
Settler Colonialism
Underdevelopment and dependency
Temporal and Spatial Diffusion in the Comparative Analysis of Social Change
Empirical Tests of Dependency Theory
Dependency and Underdevelopment in Black Africa
Structural Position in the World System and Economic Growth, 1955-1970
| Citations per year | 0.21 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1984 - 2011 (28) |
| Highly cited | No |