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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- PART 1 Introduction: Foundations for Inquiry -- Issues -- Terminology -- Theoretical Directions -- 1 The Politics of Comparative Inquiry -- The American Legacy -- Dissent in Academia -- Prevalent Beliefs and Values -- Ideology and Politics -- Ideology Revisited -- Politics and Science -- Scholarship and the Establishment -- 2 Theoretical Paths -- Positivist Thought and Its Role in Shaping the Mainstream -- Historicist Thought in the Search for an Alternative Paradigm -- Competing Paradigms -- Marxist and Non-Marxist Political Economy -- Origins and Evolution of Political Economy -- PART 2 Dichotomies of Theories -- 3 Institutional Frameworks: State and System -- Systems Theories -- State Theories -- 4 The Social Dimension: Class and Group -- Theoretical Foundations -- Perspectives on Group -- Perspectives on Class -- Issues of Class and Group Analysis -- 5 The Cultural Dimension: Individual and Collective Preferences -- Mainstream Political Culture and Socialization -- Alternative Perspectives on Culture -- Prospects for Culture Theory -- 6 The Economic Dimension: Capitalist and Socialist Development -- Conceptualizing Development -- The Historical Evolution of Capitalist and Socialist Development -- Theoretical Directions -- Policy Approaches Toward Development -- Whither Imperialism and Development Theory? -- 7 The Political Dimension: Representative and Participatory Democracy -- Representative Democracy -- Participatory Democracy -- Issues of Democracy in Capitalism and Socialism -- Models of Empowerment and Transformation -- PART 3 CONCLUSION -- 8 The Unending Search for a Paradigm in Political Economy -- Glossary -- References -- Index

"Intellectuals and the Search for National Identity in Twentieth-Century Brazil. This book discusses twentieth-century Brazilian political thought, arguing that while Rio de Janeiro intellectuals envisaged the state and the national bourgeoisie as the means to overcome dependency on foreign ideas and culture, Sao Paulo intellectuals looked to civil society and the establishment of new academic institutions in the search for national identity. Ronald H. Chilcote begins his study by outlining Brazilian intellectuals' attempt to transcend a sense of inferiority emanating from Brazilian colonialism and backwardness. Next, he traces the struggle for national identity in Rio de Janeiro through an account of how intellectuals of varying political persuasions united in search of a political ideology of national development. He then presents an analysis by Sao Paulo intellectuals on racial discrimination, social inequality, and class differentiation under early capitalism and industrialization. Lastly, the book concludes with a discussion on how Brazilian intellectuals challenged foreign thinking about development through the state and representative democratic institutions, in contrast to popular and participatory democratic practices. Ronald H. Chilcote is Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Riverside. He is a founder and managing editor of the bimonthly journal Latin American Perspectives and is the author or editor of more than two dozen major books"--

The Political Economy of Imperialism emanates from several concerns and interests. First, it departs from the fundamental premise that capitalism in its evolving forms and consolidation underlies questions and theories of imperialism and development. Second, it assumes that the foundations for a theory of imperialism and development trace to early classical writings on political economy and, in particular, to David Ricardo, Adam Smith, and Karl Marx. Third, this volume acknowledges that both positive and negative consequences accompanied the penetration of capitalism and the development of the forces and means of production throughout the world