Theories of development and underdevelopment: implications for the study of Southeast Asia

Higgott, R., Robison, R., Hewison, K. and Rodan, G. (1985) Theories of development and underdevelopment: implications for the study of Southeast Asia. In: Higgott, R. and Rodan, G., (eds.) Southeast Asia: essays in the political economy of structural change. Routledge & Kegan Paul,, London, pp. 16-61.

Abstract

Discusses increasing corporatism in S.E. Asian politics; integrates the analysis of circulation and production in the study of the state and class formation in the region where penetration of capitalism is having most influence on pre-capitalist modes of production; criticizes modernization theories and adaptations of dependency theory; and uses the analytical framework of the New International Division of Labour