TY - BOOK AU - Gupta, Arun Kumar, TI - Politics of development and underdevelopment SN - 9789392333996 AV - HD87 .P649 2023 U1 - 338.9 G95 23 PY - 2023/// CY - New Delhi, India PB - Paradise Press, KW - Economic policy KW - Economic development KW - Political aspects N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Political Development Development of Political Sociology in the World Federalism Used in Political Science Development of the State Global Political Economy The Politics of Power Developmental Idea of Democracy The New Economics and Politics of Globalization Issues in Development ; CAS; Bachelor of Arts in Political Science N2 - Political Analysis provides an accessible and engaging yet original introduction and distinctive contribution, to the analysis of political structures, institutions, ideas and behaviours, and above all, to the political processes through which they are constantly made and remade. Political analysis entails the process of investigating issues or events, decisions and challenges by systematically organizing this information into categories and then establishing a relationship between these data for the basic objective of explanation and subsequently prediction. Politics is an essentially contested concept because the term has a number of acceptable meanings and definitions. It has been defined in such different ways as the exercise of power, the exercise of author, the making of collective decisions, the allocation of scare resources, the practice of deception and manipulation amongst others. Political analysis can be defined as the various methods, theories, concept and approaches employed by a political scientist to summarize and explain various themes, political experience, events, political issues and phenomena. Political Analysis is an intuitive introduction to complex material, replete with examples from the political science literature that add relevance to statistical concepts. This text offers students an excellent balance between the technical and the practical ER -