Liberal America and the Third World (eBook)

Political Development Ideas in Foreign Aid and Social Science

Robert A. Packenham (Autor)

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2015
418 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6866-7 (ISBN)

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In Europe after World War II, U.S. economic aid helped to ensure economic revival, political stability, and democracy. In the Third World, however, aid has been associated with very different tendencies: uneven political development, violence, political instability, and authoritarian rule in most countries.Despite these differing patterns of political change in Europe and the Third World, however, American conceptions of political development have remained largely constant: democracy, stability, anti-communism. Why did the objectives and theories of U.S. aid officials and social scientists remain largely the same in the face of such negative results and despite the seeming inappropriateness of their ideas in the Third World context?Robert Packenham believes that the thinking of both officials and social scientists was profoundly influenced by the "Liberal Tradition" and its view of the American historical experience. Thus, he finds that U.S. opposition to revolution in the Third World steins not only from perceptions of security needs but also from the very conceptions of development that arc held by Americans. American pessimism about the consequences of revolution is intimately related to American optimism about the political effects of economic growth. In his final chapter the author offers some suggestions for a future policy.Originally published in 1973.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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: Aid • Albert O. Hirschman • American Academy of Political and Social Science • American Affairs • American Enterprise Institute • American Exceptionalism • American imperialism • American Power and the New Mandarins • Anti-Americanism • Anti-Communism • authoritarianism • Capitalism • Charles A. Beard • Classical Economics • Coalition Government • comparative politics • Comparative Research • Constitutionalism • counter-revolutionary • Daniel Lerner • decentralization • Decolonization • democracy index • Democratic Socialism • Dependency Theory • developed country • Developing Country • domestic policy • Dominant-party system • Economic Development • Economics • Economy and society • Edward C. Banfield • Ethnocentrism • foreign policy • Foreign policy of the United States • Fred W. Riggs • howard university • Ideology • imperialism • Intellectual history • jacksonian democracy • John Maynard Keynes • Johnson Doctrine • Keynesian Economics • left-wing politics • liberal democracy • Liberalism in the United States • Lucian Pye • Military Dictatorship • Millennium Development Goals • Modern liberalism in the United States • Monroe Doctrine • Multiculturalism • National Affairs • National Development Policy • National interest • Nationalism • National policy • Neocolonialism • New American Library • New Departure (Democrats) • New Nation (United States) • Nixon Doctrine • Pluralism (political theory) • Policy • Political decay • Political Economy • Political Man • Political Order in Changing Societies • Political Philosophy • Political Science • Political Sociology • Political System • Politics and Vision • polyarchy • Populism • Progressivism in the United States • Radicalism (historical) • Rational Choice Theory • Realism (international relations) • Republicanism • Republican Party (United States) • Right-Wing Authoritarianism • right-wing politics • Romanticism • Scientism • Social Darwinism • Social engineering (political science) • Social Science • Tax • The Great Transformation (book) • The National Interest • The Other America • third position • third world • Tories (British political party) • Traditionalist conservatism • World History • World Politics
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6866-1 / 1400868661
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6866-7 / 9781400868667