POLI 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: System On A Chip, Food Security, Institutional Revolutionary Party
24 Apr 2016
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Key characteristics of dependency dev paths are externally defined uneven development between countries and within. Some people in some regions extremely rich, some are extremely poor within countries. Structural problem (really difficult to change because of the way the system is constructed hard to reverse) Brazil able to industrialize but because dependency, it is much more unequal, Being dependent country in 19th c is dif from being dep in 20th c not a theory. There is culture, ethnicity, politics of competition (cannot be reduced to economics) Trade unions looked at this as situation of means of production and jobs, disregarded effect gender might have in workplace. Focuses on economics as either good or bad. Does not consider exceptions like taiwan (trade was a big part of their success) Assumes that change in international economy is necessary and sufficient (problem: must change politics and society domestically as well) There are alternative development paths (south cannot develop same way as north)
