Conference Papers
Conference on Difference and Inequality in Developing Societies

The following papers have been submitted for publication here and for presentation at the Conference on Difference on Inequality in Developing Societies that was held at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, on April 21-23, 2005 and co-sponsored by the APSA Task Force on Difference and Inequality in the Developing World.

Difference and Inequalities in the Developing World

I. Introduction

 - "Difference and Inequalities in the Developing World" John Echeverri-Gent (pending)

II. New Inequalities and Insecurities: Global Economic Governance and Developing Societies

A.  Robert H. Wade, "Global Inequalities: What is all the Fuss About?"

B.  Leslie Elliott Armijo and John Echeverri-Gent, "The Politics of Global Markets: Mental Models of Trade and Finance in an Unequal World"

III. Inequalities, Insecurities and the Political Economy of Development

A.  Evelyne Huber, University of North Carolina, "Inequality and the State in Latin America"  

B.  Kiren Chaudhry, "New and Recurring Forms of Poverty and Inequality in the Arab World"

C.  Aseema Sinha, "Globalization, Rising Inequality, and New Insecurities in India" 

D.  Marc Blecher, "Inequality and Capitalism in China"

IV. Accommodating Difference in an Inequitable World: Conflict, Justice and Democracy in Developing Societies  

A.  Susanne Rudolph, "Difference"

B.  Susan Woodward, "The Inequality of Violence: On the Discovery of Civil War as a Threat to "the North" in the 1990s and the Debate over Causes and Solutions"

C.  Bronwyn Leebaw, "Transitional Justice, Conflict, and Democratic Change: International Interventions and Domestic Reconciliation" 

D.  John W. Harbeson, "Toward a Comparative Politics of Concepts and Categories: Re-imagining the State and Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa"

E.  Valerie Bunce, "Democracy and Diversity in the Developing World: the American Experience with Democracy Promotion"