Publications

BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS

MOST RECENT

Richard Sandbrook, Marc Edelman, Patrick Heller and Judith Teichman, Kuresel Cevrede Sosyal Demokrasi, Ankara: Phoenix Yayinevi, 2011, with a new Preface to the Turkish Edition.

Richard Sandbrook, Marc Edelman, Patrick Heller, & Judith Teichman, Social Democracy in the Global Periphery: Origins, Challenges, Prospects, Cambridge University Press, 2007.

  Social Democracy in the Global Periphery focuses on social-democratic regimes in the developing world that have, to varying degrees, reconciled the needs of achieving growth through globalized markets with extensions of political, social and economic rights. The authors show that opportunities exist to achieve significant social progress, despite a global economic order that favours core industrial countries. Their findings derive from a comparative analysis of four exemplary cases: Kerala (India), Costa Rica, Mauritius and Chile (since 1990). Though unusual, the social and political conditions from which these developing-world social democracies arose are not unique; indeed, pragmatic and proactive social-democratic movements helped create these favourable conditions. The four exemplars have preserved or even improved their social achievements since neoliberalism emerged hegemonic in the 1980s. This demonstrates that certain social-democratic policies and practices - guided by a democratic developmental state - can enhance a national economy's global competitiveness.

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OTHERS
Editor and co-author, Civilizing Globalization: A Survival Guide.
  Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. To purchase: http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=60722

Reducing Poverty: Critical Perspectives. Special Issue of International
  Journal, ed. by Robert O. Matthews and Richard Sandbrook. Vol. 57, no. 2 (2002). 8 original essays plus introduction.

Closing the Circle: Democratization and Development in Africa.
  London and New York: Zed Books, and Toronto: Between the Lines, 2001.

(with Jay Oelbaum) Reforming the Political Kingdom:
  Democratization and Governance in Ghana's Fourth Republic. Accra: Institute of Economic Affairs, January 1998. (67 pp.)

(co-editor and co-author with Mohamed Halfani) Empowering People:
  Building Community, Civil Associations and Legality in Africa. Toronto: Centre for Urban and Community Studies, 1993. 209 pp.

The Politics of Africa's Economic Recovery. Cambridge: Cambridge
  University Press, 1993.

Afurika Keizai-kiki no Seiji-Bunseki. Translated by Toru Kotani. Tokyo:
  Sanrei Shobo, 1989. Japanese translation of The Politics of Africa's Economic Stagnation, with a new Preface and Introduction.

The Politics of Africa's Economic Stagnation. Cambridge: Cambridge
  University Press, 1985. Reprinted 1986, 1987, 1989, 1991.

The Politics of Basic Needs: Urban Aspects of Assaulting Poverty in
  Africa. Toronto: University of Toronto Press and London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1982. (Selected by Choice as an 'Outstanding Academic Book, 1982-83') Reprinted 1985.

(with Jack Arn) The Labouring Poor and Urban Class Formation: The
  Case of Greater Accra. Centre for Developing Area Studies, McGill University, Monograph Series No. 12, 1977. Extract reprinted in Chris Allen and Gavin Williams, eds., Sociology of Developing Societies: Sub-Saharan Africa. London: Macmillan, 1982, pp. 142-50.

(co-editor and co-author with Robin Cohen) The Development of an
  African Working Class: Studies in Class Formation and Action. London: Longman Group Ltd., and Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1976.

Proletarians and African Capitalism: The Kenyan Case. Cambridge:
  Cambridge University Press, 1975.


CHAPTERS IN BOOKS


(with David Romano) “Does Neoliberal Globalization Foster Violent
 

Conflict in Poor Countries?" in David A. Deese, ed., Globalization: Causes and Effects. Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishers, 2012.


“Astute Governance Promotion versus Historical Conditions in
 

Explaining Good Governance: The Case of Mauritius,” in Jennifer Welsh and Ngaire Woods, eds., Exporting Good Governance: Temptations and Challenges in Canada’s Aid Program, Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2007, pp. 203-221.


“Envisioning a Civilized Globalization,” in R. Sandbrook, ed.,
  Civilizing Globalization: A Survival Guide. Albany: SUNY Press, 2003, pp. 1-11.

“A New Urgency: Civilizing Globalization in an Era of Terrorism,” in
  R. Sandbrook, ed., Civilizing Globalization. Albany: SUNY Press, 2003, pp. 253-68.

(with Dickson Eyoh) "Pragmatic Neo-Liberalism and Just Development
  in Africa," in Atul Kohli, Chung-in Moon and Georg Sorensen, eds., States, Markets, and Just Growth: Development in the 21st Century. Tokyo and New York: United Nations University Press, 2003, pp. 227-57.

"Democratization and Institutional Reform," in E. Wayne Nafziger and
  Raimo Vayrynen, eds., The Prevention of Humanitarian Emergencies. Houndmills, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2002, pp. 151-73.

"Patrons, Clients and Factions: Explaining Conflict in Africa," in Peter
  Lewis, ed., Africa: Dilemmas of Development and Change. Boulder: Westview Press, 1998, pp. 64-83.

"Economic Crisis, Structural Adjustment and the State in Subsaharan
  Africa", in Dharam Ghai, ed., The IMF and the South: The Social Impact of Crisis and Adjustment, London: Zed Books, 1991, pp. 95-114.

"Patrimonialism and the Failings of Parastatals: Africa in Comparative
  Perspective", in Paul Cook and Colin Kirkpatrick, eds., Privatization in the Third World. New York: St. Martin's Press & Brighton: Wheatsheaf Books, 1988, pp. 162-179.

"Crisis Urbana en el Tercer Mundo", en Valentin Ibarra et al., eds., La
  Ciudad Y el Medio Ambiente. Mexico: El Colegio de Mexico, 1987, pp. 19-28.

(with Richard Stren) "Urbanization, National Development, and the
  International Economic Order", in Rodney White and Ian Burton, eds., Approaches to the Study of the Environmental Implications of Contemporary Urbanization. MAB 14. Paris: UNESCO, 1983, pp. 69-82. (Published also in French and Spanish)

(with Joseph Whitney) "Guidelines for the Writing of Diagnostic Country
  Reports", in ibid., pp. 57-61.

"Worker Consciousness and Populist Protest in Tropical Africa", in
  Richard and Ida Simpson, eds., Research in the Sociology of Work. Greenwich, Conn., JAI Press, 1981, pp. 1-36.

"The State and the Development of Trade Unionism", in Goran Hyden et
  al., eds., Development Administration. Nairobi and London: Oxford University Press, 1970, pp. 252-95.

ARTICLES

“Polanyi and Post-neoliberalism in the Global South: Dilemmas of
  Re-embedding the Economy,“ New Political Economy 16:4 (2011) pp. 415-43.

(co-author)“Kan Socialdemokratin Overleva i det Globala Syd? “
  Fronesis (Stockholm), No. 32/33 (2010), pp. 254-68.

“ Politik und Sozialdemokratie in der Gritten Weit. “
  Neue Gessellschaft, No. 1/2 (2010), pp.65-9.

“Making Social Democracy in the Global South,” Re-Public (Spring 2008).
  (www.re-public.gr/en) (special issue on “Liberalism and Social Democracy: A Promising Marriage?)”.

“Alternatives to Neoliberalism in the Third World,”
  Renewal 15(2/3), 2007, pp. 46-57.

“Globalization and Egalitarian Distribution,” Democratiya, No. 8 (Spring 2007)
  http://www.democratiya.com/review.asp?reviews_id=71 .

(co-author) "Puden Sobrevivir las Democracias Sociales en el Sur
  Globalizado?" Nueva Sociedad No. 204 (Julio-Agosto 2006), pp. 24-36.

(co-author) "Can Social Democracies Survive in the Global South?"
  Dissent (Spring 2006), pp. 53-60.

"Africa's Great Transformation?" Journal of Development Studies 41:6
  (2005), pp. 1118 -1125.

“Origins of the Democratic Developmental State: Interrogating
  Mauritius,” Canadian Journal of African Studies 39:3 (2005).

(with David Romano) “Globalization, Extremism and Violence in Poor
  Countries,” Third World Quarterly 25:6 (2004), pp. 1007-1030.

"Deepening Democracy to Fight Poverty: What Role for Humane
  Internationalists?," International Journal 57:2 (2002).

"Globalization and the Limits of Neoliberal Development Doctrine,"
  Third World Quarterly XXI, 6 (2000), pp. 1071-80.

"Neoliberalism"s False Promise," Literary Review of Canada VIII, 8
  (October 2000), pp. 20-24.

"Citizenship, Rights and Poverty: Narrowing the Gap between Theory
  and Practice," Occasional Paper, International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2000.

"The Contradictions of Neoliberal Democracy" Cambridge Review of
  International Affairs XIII, 1 (1999), pp. 41-54.

"Democracy and Market Reform in Africa," Occasional Paper Series,
  Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture, Tokyo, Dec. 1999.

"Economic Liberalization versus Political Democratization: A Social-
  Democratic Resolution?" Canadian Journal of African Studies, XXXI, 3 (1997), pp. 482-516

(with Jay Oelbaum) "Reforming Dysfunctional Institutions Through
  Democratization? Reflections on Ghana", Journal of Modern African Studies, XXXV, 4 (1997), pp. 603-46.

"Transitions without Consolidation: Democratization in Six African
  Cases", Third World Quarterly, XVII, 1 (1996), pp. 69-87.

"Democratization and the Implementation of Economic Reform in
  Africa", Journal of International Development, VIII, 1 (1996), pp. 1-20.

"Bringing Politics Back In? The World Bank and Adjustment in Africa",
  Canadian Journal of African Studies, XXIX, 2 (1995), pp. 278-89.

"Le condizioni politiche prioritarie per la ripresa economica", Politica
  Internazionale, XIX, 4 (1991), pp. 82-94.

"Taming the African Leviathan: Political Reform and Economic
  Recovery", World Policy Journal, VII, 4 (Fall 1990), pp. 673-701.

"Banking on Good Government", Development Network, April 1990,
  6pp.

"Liberal Democracy in Africa: A Socialist-Revisionist Perspective",
  Canadian Journal of African Studies, XXII, 2 (1988), pp. 240-268.

"The Debate about Liberal Democracy: Africa in Third World
  Perspective", ISOP Intercom (UCLA), X, 15 (May 1988), pp. 1-4.

"La personalisation du pouvoir et la stagnation capitaliste", Politique
  Africaine, #26 (Juin 1987) pp. 15-37. "Une réponse à Jean Copans" in the same issue, pp. 38-40.

"Hobbled Leviathans: Constraints on State Formation in Africa",
  International Journal, XLI, 4 (1986-87), pp. 707-33.

"The State and Economic Stagnation in Tropical Africa", World
  Development, XIV, 3 (1986), pp. 319-33.

"Urban Crisis in the Third World", International Perspectives
  (September-October, 1983), pp. 27-30.

"Is There Hope for Africa?", International Perspectives
  (January-February 1983), pp. 3-8.

"Is Socialism Possible in Africa?", Journal of Commonwealth and
  Comparative Politics, XIX, 2 (1981), pp. 197-207.

(with Jack Arn) "On the Theory and Practice of the Laboring Poor",
  International Journal of African Historical Studies, XIII, 3 (1980).

(with Jack Arn) "Debate on Sandbrook and Arn's The Labouring Poor
  and Urban Class Formation: A Reply", Manpower and Unemployment Research, XI, 1 (1978), pp. 86-93.

"The Political Potential of African Urban Workers", Canadian Journal of
  African Studies, XII, 1 (1978), pp. 411-33.

"The Study of the African 'Sub-Proletariat'", Manpower and
  Unemployment Research, X, 1 (1977), pp. 91-105.

"The 'Crisis' in Political Development Theory", Journal of Development
  Studies, XII, 2 (1976), pp. 165-85.

"Kenya: The Future of Underdevelopment", Background Paper No. 1,
  Council on Foreign Relations, New York, March 1976, 17pp.

"Workers, Unions and Development in Africa", Journal of Modern
  African Studies, XI, 3 (1973), pp. 455-58.

"The Working Class in the Future of the Third World", World Politics,
  XXV, 3 (1973), pp. 448-78.

"Patrons, Clients and Factions: New Dimensions of Conflict Analysis in
  Africa", Canadian Journal of Political Science, V, 1 (1972), pp. 104-119.

"Patrons, Clients and Unions: The Labour Movement and Political
  Conflict in Kenya," Journal of Commonwealth Political Studies, X, 1 (1972), pp. 3-27.

"Unions and Politics in Kenya", Africa Report, XV, 3 (1970), pp. 24-29.
   

REVIEWS have appeared in:

Review of Politics
Literary Review of Canada
American Political Science Review
Canadian Journal of African Studies
Africa Today
International Journal of African Historical Studies
Africana Journal
Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics
Canadian Journal of Political Science
Development and Change
Labour, Capital and Society

 

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