Development and Democracy: Relations in Conflict examines the conflicting relations between technological development and democracy as they unfold in a new and ever more challenging environment.
Victor Manuel Figueroa Sepulveda, 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).
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Introduction
1 A Critique of the Origin and Foundations of the New Inequality among Mankind
Alexandre M. Quaresma
2 Unemployment, Inequality and Technological Development
Victor Manuel Figueroa Sepulveda
3 Technology and Subsumption by Capital
Jesus 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 Recendez 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 Munoz Dominguez
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 Alvarez Yanez
11 The Challenges of Democracy in Mexico
Hector de la Fuente Limon
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