Development against democracy : manipulating political change in the third world / Irene L. Gendzier ; introduction by Robert Vitalis ; foreword by Thomas Ferguson.

"Originally published 1985 by Westview Press as Managing Political Change: Social Scientists and the Third World. Reissued 1995 by The Tyrone Press as Development Against Democracy: Manipulating Political Change in the Third World"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-212) and index.

The "new look" in development studies -- Making connections -- Discourse on development -- Transparent boundaries : from policies to studies of political development -- Defining the parameters of discourse -- The academic translation : liberal democratic theory and interpretations of political development -- The impossible task of theories of political development.

"This new, updated edition of the influential Development Against Democracy is a critical guide to postwar studies of modernization and development. In the mid-twentieth century, models of development studies were products of postwar American policy. They focused on newly independent states in the Global South, aiming to assure their pro-Western orientation by claiming to promote economic growth and democracy, while masking U.S. intervention to block radical change. Irene L. Gendzier argues that the fundamental ideas on which theories of modernization and development rest have been resurrected in contemporary policy and its theories, representing the continuity of postwar U.S. foreign policy and its claims of American exceptionalism in a world permanently altered by globalization and its multiple discontents, the proliferation of "failed state," the unprecedented exodus of refugees, and Washington's declaration of a permanent "war against terrorism". " --back cover.