Promise Of Development

Peter F. Klarén is professor of Latin American history at George Washington University and a professorial lecturer on Andean history and politics at the School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University. Thomas J. Bossert teaches political science at Sarah Lawrence College and lectures on politics at the Harvard School of Public Health. Peter F. Klarén is professor of Latin American history at George Washington University and a professorial lecturer on Andean history and politics at the School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University. Thomas J. Bossert teaches political science at Sarah Lawrence College and lectures on politics at the Harvard School of Public Health.

• Also of Interest -- Preface -- Introduction -- Lost Promise: Explaining Latin American Underdevelopment -- Modernization -- Values, Education, and Entrepreneurship -- The Politics of Social and Economic Change in Latin America -- Political Change in Latin America: The Emergence of the Middle Sectors -- Responsibility of the Latifundios for Lags in Social Development -- Dependency and Marxism -- The Development of Underdevelopment -- Economic Development of Latin America -- Nationalism and Populism: Social and Political Forces of Development in the Phase of Consolidating the Domestic Market -- Feudalism and Capitalism in Latin America -- Corporatism -- Social Change, Political Development, and the Latin American Tradition -- Natural Corporatism and the Passing of Populism in Spanish America -- Bureaucratic Authoritarianism -- Toward an Alternative Conceptualization of South American Politics -- Tensions in the Bureaucratic-Authoritarian State and the Question of Democracy -- Conclusion -- The Promise of Theory