Political Change in the Third World

1988 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 173
Author(s):  
John C. Campbell ◽  
Charles F. Andrain
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Political Change ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World

Middlemen in Third-World Corruption: Implications of an Indian Case

1987 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 508-535 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Oldenburg
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
The Third ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Made In

Corruption—like the weather—is a phenomenon people in the third world talk about a great deal, and, it would seem, do little about. Scholars of political change in the third world share this interest, but—although they are usually not expected to deal with corruption itself —they should move beyond the recounting of vivid anecdotes to a more systematic analysis of the problem. Steps in this direction were made in the 1960s and 1970s, but surprisingly little more work has been done since.

Political Change in Latin America: A Foreign Policy Dilemma for the United States

1986 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viron P. Vaky
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Third World ◽  
Political Change ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Politics ◽  
The Third ◽  
General Relevance ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Third World ◽  
First Time

In 1968 Henry Kissinger wrote: “A mature conception of our interests in the world … would deal with two fundamental questions: What is it in our interest to prevent? What should we seek to accomplish?” (Kissinger, 1974: 92) Whatever its general relevance, that passage is an apt description of the lens through which American policymakers have contemplated the phenomenon of political change in the Third World. Those are the first questions they tend to ask.The rationale for this particular concept of foreign policy tasks has its roots (1) in the complexities of an increasingly interdependent world in which world politics have become truly global for the first time in human history, and (2) in the deep antagonisms embedded in the US/Soviet relationship. Because nuclear realities .have placed a cap on the way in which the two superpowers confront and contend with one another, conflict between them tends to get pushed to the periphery and to take place in indirect ways.

The decline of patron-client relations in developed societies

1983 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Theobald
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Third World ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Third ◽  
Enormous Amount ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Client Relations ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Scholarly Attention

An enormous amount of scholarly attention has been devoted to the phenomenon of patron-client relations both in the form of conceptual elaboration and to the application of the patronage model to a wide variety of empirical situations. However despite the prodigious amount written on the relationship its analytical status remains equivocal: no one, for example, has been able to say with any degree of precision what patron-clientage is, and especially where patron-clientage ends and the reciprocity which pervades all social relations begins. But a certain lack of clarity has not deterred social scientists from resorting to the patron-client model and few studies of social and political change in the Third World manage to get by entirely without it.

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