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Liberal America and the Third World : Political Development Ideas in Foreign Aid and Social Science / Robert A. Packenham.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1802Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©1973Description: 1 online resource (418 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780691616858
  • 9781400868667
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.91/172/4073
LOC classification:
  • HC60
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Doctrines -- 1. Political Development Doctrines, 1947-1960 -- 2. Political Development Doctrines, 1961-1968 -- 3. The Liberal Roots of the Doctrines -- 4. The Coherence and Value of the Doctrines -- Part II: Theories -- 5. Political Development Theories, 1945-1970 -- 6. The Usefulness of the Theories -- 7. The Liberal Roots of the Theories -- Part III: Conclusion -- 8. Conclusions and Prescriptions -- Appendix: A Note on Definitions, Scope, and Method -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Doctrines -- 1. Political Development Doctrines, 1947-1960 -- 2. Political Development Doctrines, 1961-1968 -- 3. The Liberal Roots of the Doctrines -- 4. The Coherence and Value of the Doctrines -- Part II: Theories -- 5. Political Development Theories, 1945-1970 -- 6. The Usefulness of the Theories -- 7. The Liberal Roots of the Theories -- Part III: Conclusion -- 8. Conclusions and Prescriptions -- Appendix: A Note on Definitions, Scope, and Method -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

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In English.

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