POLI 227 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Homicide, Modernization Theory, Fatalism
29 Mar 2017
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6 - politics of the rural and urban poor. Chapter 6 the politics of the rural and urban poor. The rural poor: the peasantry in the developing world. Modernization theory argues that as countries develop, modern values and institutions will spread from the cities to the countryside, and the gap between the two will narrow. Dependency theorists maintain that the links between urban and rural areas replicate the exploitative international relationship between the industrialized core (industrialized world) and the periphery (the ldcs) Agricultural property is concentrated in a relatively small number of hands. The inequalities have contributed to rural poverty and produced rigid class systems in countries such as colombia the philippines and parts of india. East asia (except philippines) has the most equitable distribution of farmland among the less developed regions. Major filipino sugar growers and argentine cattle barons have historically exercised considerable political power in national politics.
