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Democracy and Development in the Global South

by william i. robinson, vivek chibber, and diane e. davis

To help make sense of some big-picture social changes in a rapidly globalizing world, Contexts invited three knowledgeable sociological critics to discuss democracy and development in what used to be called the Third World.

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About the Author

Diane Davis
Diane E. Davis is in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of Discipline and Development: Middle Classes and Late Industrialization in East Asia and Latin America.
Willian I. Robinson is in the sociology department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of A Theory of Global Capitalism: Production, Class and State in a Transnational World.
Vivek Chibber is in the sociology department at New York University. He is the author of Locked in Place: State Building and Late Industrialization in India.

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