Crime, Justice, And Underdevelopment: The Palestinians Under Israeli Control

1988 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 411-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elia Zureik
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Third World ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Third ◽  
Norm Violation ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Relationship

Orthodox theories of crime in the Third World and in regions of uneven economic development offer a unilinear explanation of the relationship between economic development and increased crime rates. Simply stated, this Durkheimian position views the transition from traditional to modern society as being associated with the weakening of mechanical forms of solidarity and the emergence of secular and impersonal role structures based on a complex division of labor. Universalistic and achievement criteria replace ascriptive and particularistic values, and deviance-derived social control models based on formalized coercive sanctions substitute for traditional and community-based forms of control. Anomic behavior, frustration of expectations, and norm violation are considered an expected, if transitory, outcome of social change, and are explained on the basis of a clash between modern and traditional value systems.

Detente: A Third World Perspective

1976 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-134
Author(s):  
Yassin El-Ayouty
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Third World ◽  
International Peace ◽  
The Third ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
World Perspective

The author examines detente in the context of the relationship between the two superpowers, the relationships between them and their bloc partners respectively, their relationships with the Third World, and the cause of international peace and security, equity and justice. He finds that detente is either ambiguous, irrelevant, dysfunctional, or positively dangerous, and either ignores or thwarts the interests and aspirations of the Third World countries, which cannot therefore view it as anything more than a diplomatic and psychological ploy for the continued denial of equality, autonomy and economic development to them.

Mapping Economic Diversity in the First World: The Case of Fisheries

2005 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 959-979 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin St. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Fisheries Management ◽  
Third World ◽  
Local Scale ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Economic Diversity ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Community Cooperation ◽  
First World

Fisheries are understood within a binary frame that is both spatialized into the First and Third Worlds and founded upon a developmentalist discourse of fisheries that produces the conditions for capitalism. The result is an inevitable march toward privatization of resources abstractly understood and their utilization by individuals as capital. The Third World is allowed to diverge from this inevitability because of its inherent characteristics of subject and space read as fisheries-based community and territory. These different imaginaries of subject and space produce very different prescriptions for economic development; the First World must choose capitalism whereas the Third World might explore other options, albeit at a local scale. Producing alternative forms of fisheries management in the First World, then, requires both a strategy of valuing that which has been relegated to the periphery (for example, community, cooperation, and participation) as well as a blurring of binary categories generally. Undermining the presence of capitalism in the First World and making space for that which has been excluded (for example, community-based and territorial fisheries) requires a new economic and spatial imaginary.

Amiya Kumar Bagchi. The Political Economy of Underdevelopment. London: Cambridge University Press. 1982. Reprint 1983. pp.viii+276. List of books for further reading; Index. Price: £ 8.50 (paperback edition).

1985 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-82
Author(s):  
Zia Ul Haq
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Third World ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Growth Strategies ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Third World

Amiya Kumar Bagchi, an eminent economist of the modern Cambridge tradition, has produced a timely treatise, in a condensed form, on the development problems of the Third World countries. The author's general thesis is that economic development in the developing societies necessarily requires a radical transformation in the economic, social and political structures. As economic development is actually a social process, economic growth should not be narrowly defined as the growth of the stock of rich capitalists. Neither can their savings be equated to capital formation whose impact on income will presumably 'trickle down' to the working classes. Economic growth strategies must not aim at creating rich elites, because, according to the author, "maximizing the surplus in the hands of the rich in the Third World is not, however, necessarily a way of maximizing the rate of growth".

Secularization and States of Modernity

1984 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 362-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terrance G. Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Third World ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Modern State ◽  
The Third ◽  
Political Modernity ◽  
General Proposition ◽  
Significant Obstacle ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Relationship

Extensive secularization is frequently held to be a necessary condition for political modernity. The author argues that the relationship between religion and the modern state is considerably more complex than this general proposition suggests. It is necessary to specify particular ideological models of the modern state, since these differ significantly from one another; and it is necessary to specify particular religions in their contemporary manifestations, since these also differ in important ways. A detailed analysis of this type suggests that there is no general incompatibility between the main religions of the third world and widely shared, nonideological features of political modernity. Specific religions are shown to be incompatible with some specific forms of the modern state, while presenting no significant obstacle to other models of political modernity.

Education, Economic Development, and Technology Transfer: A Colonial Test

1989 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 939-957 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. Hanson
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Third World ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Formal Schooling ◽  
Mineral Sector ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World

I test the hypothesis advanced by Richard Easterlin and others that the importation of modern technology and prospects for economic development in the Third World are principally a function of the local population's formal schooling. According to orthodoxy, manufacturing more than any other sector should repay investment in human capital. Yet the correlation of schooling with the manufacturing sector is much lower than with the mineral sector, an enclave in colonial economies and a symbol of underdevelopment.

Political Corruption in Nigeria Before Independence

1993 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Tignor
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Third World ◽  
Political Corruption ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Political Integration ◽  
Regime Changes ◽  
The Third ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Third World

Political corruption is widespread in contemporary societies, and is regarded by some analysts of the Third World as the single most important obstacle to economic development and political integration. Certainly the frequent régime changes which have occurred in Africa in the last several decades have been accompanied by charges of gross administrative malfeasance and promises to introduce honest government. Perhaps no country in the continent has devoted more attention and energy to continuing allegations of corruption than Nigeria. Indeed, from the late colonial period up until the present, critics of those in power have lamented the level of venality, and numerous published reports have catalogued a wide range of iniquities and called for reform.

Economic Development in the Third World. An Introduction to Problems and Policies in a Global Perspective

1978 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 324
Author(s):  
Bankey L. Sharma ◽  
N. R. Vasudeva Murthy ◽  
Michael P. Todaro
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Third World ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World
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