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The Politics of the Developing Areas
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1960
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Public PolicyDeveloping AreasPolitical GeographyEconomic DevelopmentPolitical EcologyLocal Economic DevelopmentPolitical DevelopmentBusinessRegional DevelopmentDevelopment GeographyPolitical ScienceSocial SciencesGeopolitics
This book pioneers a comparative analysis of political systems across Asia, Africa, the Near East, and Latin America. The Princeton Legacy Library aims to broaden access to Princeton University Press’s extensive scholarly catalog. The authors develop a functional comparative‑politics framework and apply it to Southeast Asia, South Asia, Sub‑Saharan Africa, the Near East, and Latin America, surveying political structures, change processes, and integration mechanisms. The book achieves a comprehensive classification, synthesis, and analysis of these regions, marking it as a seminal contribution to comparative politics. Originally published in 1960, the book is now reissued by the Princeton Legacy Library in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
A pioneering venture, this book is the first major effort toward a valid comparison of the political systems of Asia, Africa, the Near East, and Latin America. After establishing a theoretical framework based on a functional approach to comparative politics, the authors apply their scheme to Southeast Asia (Lucian W. Pye), South Asia (Myron Weiner), SubSaharan Africa (James S. Coleman), the Near East (Dankwart Rustow), and Latin America (George I. Blanksten). In each area they survey the political background, the nature and function of political, governmental, and authoritative structures, the processes of change and means of political integration. The contributors have performed an extraordinarily difficult feat of classification, description, synthesis, and analysis in what promises to be a book of seminal importance in comparative politics. Originally published in 1960. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.