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Politics, the State, the Military

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Theories of Underdevelopment

Part of the book series: Critical Social Studies

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The principal hypothesis in this chapter is that, to each of the forms of economic development there corresponds a particular form of politics and form of state apparatus. Of course, this can only be hypothesised in the most general terms, since we have stressed the importance of the class structure in mediating between the economy and the polity.

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© 1979 Ian Roxborough

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Roxborough, I. (1979). Politics, the State, the Military. In: Theories of Underdevelopment. Critical Social Studies. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16338-0_8

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