Development And Democracy: Relations In Conflict

Víctor Manuel Figueroa Sepúlveda, Ph.D. (1980), North East London Polytechnic-University of Sussex, is senior professor and researcher in Political Science at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico. His published works include Reinterpretando el subdesarrollo (Siglo XXI, 1986) and Industrial Colonialism in Latin America: The Third Stage (Haymarket Books, 2014).

Acknowledgments

List of Tables and Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

1 A Critique of the Origin and Foundations of the New Inequality among Mankind

 Alexandre M. Quaresma

2 Unemployment, Inequality and Technological Development

 Víctor Manuel Figueroa Sepúlveda

3 Technology and Subsumption by Capital

 Jesús Becerra Villegas

4 The State and Freedom of Public Network Space

 Sergio Octavio Contreras

5 Grey Areas in China’s Growth: A Questionable Development

 Silvana Andrea Figueroa Delgado

6 Economic Growth, Democracy and the Construction of Citizenship in South Korea

 Cristina Recéndez Guerrero

7 Latin American Democracy as an Alternative Work in Progress

 Ximena de la Barra and R.A. Dello Buono

8 Acquiring Technology in the Mexican Private Sector: A Disarticulated ‘Linkage’ of the Triple Helix

 Miguel Omar Muñoz Domínguez

9 Proliferation of the Corporate Agro-Industrial Model in Latin America

 Irma Lorena Acosta Reveles

10 Well-Being and Happiness: Conditions for a New Conception of Development?

 Ernesto Menchaca Arredondo and Leonel Álvarez Yáñez

11 The Challenges of Democracy in Mexico

 Héctor de la Fuente Limón

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