... that has emerged in the last several decades to explain the remarkable processes of economic development in East Asia: those of the so-called East Asian Tigers or “developmental states,” which were more or less contemporaneous with development in Puerto Rico. Since, unlike Puerto Rico, these cases were...

... in macro-sociology offers a powerful lens to understand the underlying social drivers of this crisis. By examining the interconnectedness of development, well-being, and the environment this scholarship illuminates potential pathways towards a more sustainable future. The contributions in this special...

...Heidi E. Rademacher; Enrique Pumar The study of development has been fundamental for sociologists since the earliest days of the discipline. Yet, after over a century of sociological inquiry, how much do we know about development, and what is the future of development from a sociological...

... in national income inequality ( Ravallion 2014 ). Yet, despite these contrasting trends, few studies investigate the interplay between national and international income inequality. This consideration is central to the sociology of development. Early developmental studies in sociology were dedicated...

... theories, dependency theories, and developmental state theories all argue that rich nations have a greater technological capacity, which gives them a global competitive advantage in manufacturing ( Barro 1991 ; Pastor et al. 2018 ; Szirmai and Verspagen 2015 ). Global commodity chain theorists...

...Christopher Kollmeyer This study draws on world-systems theory to generate new explanations for the uneven patterns of civil violence found in the world today. A large and well-developed literature shows that low-income countries with stagnant economies and undemocratic political systems...

... United States development family We assess the extent to which developmental idealism (DI) about marriage is endorsed in the United States. We also examine whether Americans’ endorsement of these beliefs and attitudes about marriage differs by demographic characteristics, including race, gender...

.... The corollary is that those who are willing to support Canada’s objectives even when they are contrary to developmental benefit may be more upwardly mobile and reinforce limits on solidarity. Most workers come into the industry to make a difference, but the institutional structure—though full of potential...

...Skye Niles Over the past two decades, the range of efforts to address global poverty and development has expanded dramatically. Yet, many of these approaches foreground market-based development and extend harmful neoliberal practices. Scholars have critiqued these practices for expanding capitalism...

... to end a seemingly successful international volunteer program legitimized by affirmation from their community partner in the global South, their peers, and their institution? Research has shown that international volunteering organizations, and development organizations more broadly, are resilient, even...

... in some important areas of development and welfare provision. Based on this analysis, I propose directions for future research on the developmental outcome of revolutions. In addition to doctors and hospitals, Harris documents other components of Iran’s health system, for example, the expansion...

...Tracy Fehr This article expands the sociology of development literature by unpacking how the influx of hundreds of NGOs and INGOs following Nepal’s 2015 earthquakes operated as an unprecedented “post-disaster development surge.” Reframing reconstruction as development renders visible the linkages...

...Samuel Cohn Coercive capitalism is development based on the use of force to dispossess either land or labor. Early macrosociologists, both functionalist and conflict-oriented, believed that feudal systems were based on the use of force but that capitalism is based on coercion-free free markets...

... two-way fixed effects regression models and a three-way interaction to test whether integration into the global economy, measured as imports (% of GDP), affects male and female smoking prevalence across country income groups (developed vs. less developed nations) and time from 2000 to 2015. We observe...

... programs, such as those implemented by USAID, and their emphasis on free market economic policies. In many middle-income countries, though, IFIs and U.S. development agencies do not maintain economic development programs. If the U.S. state cannot promote free market policies through IFIs and its bilateral...

... it substantial political power as an individual actor. The firm can act on its own behalf in making its case to government officials, so its lobbying is substantially more effective than that of a relatively diluted trade association. Developmentally, monopoly technology implies long gestation periods before...

... development possibilities, in ways that favor the perpetuation of extraction over a shift toward production. As Bunker (1985 :31) puts it, the “extraction and exportation of natural resources affect the subsequent developmental potential of the environments from which they are extracted.” Bunker refers...

... article content through the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, https://www.ucpress.edu/journals/reprints-permissions . 2019 women labor force state feminism feminist advocacy development political economy institutions Tunisia's secular republican...

... sensory capacity and cognition ( McLuhan 1964 ). New ways of extending the human capacity to communicate, retain, and process information mark developmental epochs of human civilization. Because of this broad scope, it is necessary to define ICTs narrowly. Our focus is the 21-year period from 1990 to 2010...

...Rukmalie Jayakody Developmental idealism is a powerful cultural model specifying what development is, describing how it can be achieved, and framing it as desirable and good. Television is a key mechanism hypothesized to spread developmental idealism messages to remote areas that have previously...