The Political Economy of Development

A Game Theoretic Approach

Robert H Bates author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:29th Oct '20

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Explores the relationship between a government's political choices and its country's level of development.

The causes of under-development are political, yet those who study development often fail to investigate the impact of politics. Drawing on field work, history and theory, this book probes the political roots of under-development.Those studying development often address the impact of government policies, but rarely the politics that generate these policies. A culmination of several decades of work by Robert Bates, among the most respected comparativists in political science, this compact volume seeks to rectify that omission. Bates addresses the political origins of prosperity and security and uncovers the root causes of under-development. Without the state there can be no development, but those who are endowed with the power of the state often use its power to appropriate the wealth and property of those they rule. When do those with power use it to safeguard rather than to despoil? Bates explores this question by analyzing motivations behind the behaviour of governments in the developing world, drawing on historical and anthropological insights, game theory, and his own field research in developing nations.

'The specialist reader and the graduate student will do well in reading the book, pencil in hand, thinking of further insights about the political economy of development to be gained from the game theoretic approach.' Cesar Martinelli, Political Science Quarterly

ISBN: 9781108930932

Dimensions: 150mm x 230mm x 10mm

Weight: 210g

200 pages