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Urbanization and political change : the politics of Lagos, 1917-1967 /

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press , c1974.Description: xiii, 384 p. :illISBN:
  • 0520020669
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.5'92'096691 BAK
LOC classification:
  • JS7656.9.L3 B34
Summary: This article develops a theoretical and empirical evaluation of the overlooked relationship between urbanization and political change. To accomplish this, theoretical insights from Weber, Lerner and Lipset’s political modernization thesis, and Dahl and Tufte’s analysis of size and democracy are used to assess the link between features of a nation’s urban system and changes to its political trajectory. A cross-national time-series analysis of 110 nations from 1965 to 2010, as well as the mini case study of Morocco, provides strong evidence that various dimensions of urbanization play an important role in eliciting political change in the developing world.
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Monograph & others Monograph & others CBN HQ Library Non-fiction 301.5'92'096691 BAK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available 31008100126537
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Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 357-369.

This article develops a theoretical and empirical evaluation of the overlooked relationship between urbanization and political change. To accomplish this, theoretical insights from Weber, Lerner and Lipset’s political modernization thesis, and Dahl and Tufte’s analysis of size and democracy are used to assess the link between features of a nation’s urban system and changes to its political trajectory. A cross-national time-series analysis of 110 nations from 1965 to 2010, as well as the mini case study of Morocco, provides strong evidence that various dimensions of urbanization play an important role in eliciting political change in the developing world.

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