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Developmental Democracy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Richard L. Sklar
Richard L. Sklar
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University of California, Los Angeles
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Political science has become a dismal science for most of the world. In the proverbial third world, where most people live, the “physical quality of life” is often abysmal and liable to further deterioration. Steeped in “realism,” political science foretells a future of dictatorial rule for most of those who face the prospect of increasing physical misery.

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The Politics of Change
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , October 1987, pp. 686 - 714
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1987

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The author is grateful to Sean I. Gordon for his valuable research assistance on business and labor, and to Gerald J. Bender, Courtney Brown, C. R. D. Halisi, Cobie A. Harris, and Martin J. Sklar for sharing their thoughts.

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