First published 1999, reprinted 2001, and published online 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1: The Study of Third World Politics and Development -- The Problem Area -- Third World Development -- Third World Politics of Development: The Symbiosis of the Political and Economic Spheres -- Other Themes? -- The Subdiscipline -- Political Modernisation -- Third World Politics -- The Politics of Development -- Politics and Late Development -- Other Views? -- Analytical Approaches -- Political and Scientific Conjunctures -- The Colonial and Anti-Colonial Inheritance -- Great Power Interests, Area Studies and Modernisation Theory -- Interest in Development Problems, Thematic Studies and Dependency Theory -- On the Terms of the World Market – Area Studies and Neo-Classical Theory -- In Search of New Models – Institutionalist and Post-Marxist Perspectives -- Part 2: The Discussion on Third World Politics and Development -- Modernisation and Political Development -- The Political Sociology and Economy of Modernisation -- From Tradition to Modernity -- Broad Society-Oriented Analyses -- The Western Modernisation Project versus the Radical Nation-State Project -- Summary -- Revised Modernisation and Guided Development -- New Points of Departure in Conditions of Incomplete Modernisation -- Conflicts, Clientelism, Inefficient Institutions and State Room for Manoeuvre -- Organised Interests, Historical Continuity and Political Leadership -- The Politics of Order versus Non-Capitalist Development -- Summary -- Dependency and Politics -- The Political Effects of Underdevelopment -- International Economic Determinism -- Anti-Imperialism and Self-Centred Development -- Summary -- Class Politics and the Relative Autonomy of the State -- The Actual Pattern of Development -- Classes and Interests -- Class Politics -- The Relative Autonomy of the State -- Political Marxism -- Summary -- Rent-Seeking Politicians and Bureaucrats -- No Short Cuts to Progress -- Neo-Classical Premises -- Too Much Politics -- Economistic Explanatory Models -- Disarm the State and the Special Interests -- Summary -- The Primacy of Institutions -- From Earlier to Renewed Discussion -- The Individual and the Market are Not Everything -- Transaction Costs and State Direction -- Political Institutions and Organisations -- Institutional and Historical Explanations -- Crafting Democracy and Good Government -- Summary -- Post-Marxist Alternatives -- The Need for Revised Marxism and Institutionalism -- Control of Resources, Political Dominance and Social Movements -- From Substantive Theory to Analytical Framework -- New Movements and an Alternative Common Interest -- Summary -- Part 3: From a School to a Perspective and Study of One's Own: The Case of Democratisation -- Towards the Study of Democratisation in the Context of Late Development -- Democratic and Authoritarian Modernisation -- Neo-Modernism, the Rational Elite, Civil Society and ‘Good Governance’ -- How Fruitful are the Explanatory Models of Today? -- Which Research Problems Merit Continued Attention? -- From Civil Society and Social Capital to the Politics of Democratisation -- General Theoretical Weaknesses -- Problems of Generalisation -- Dubious Relevance -- The Weakness of Politics against Fragmentation -- Fragmentation of Interests and Democratisation -- Towards the Study of the Politics of Democratisation -- Conclusion -- Study Questions -- References: (And Some Additional Textbooks).

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