We pose the question nar rowly, examining exclusively the impact of development, rather than seeking broadly to explain the dynamic of political regimes.

Modernization policies were in play during the transition from world war to cold war. In strategically important places like South Korea and Nationalist China, Americans attempted to bring stability …

Scientific Approach to Development: Modernization Theory Just as the new technology of warfare provided an impetus to a scientific military strategy in the form of deterrence theory, so too did a …

We revisit and critically reevaluate the widely accepted modernization hypothesis which claims that per capita income causes the creation and the consolidation of democracy.

Modernisation, as a form of cultural response, involves attributes which are basically universalistic and evolutionary; they are pan-humanistic, trans-ethnic and non-ideological (Singh 1961). The essential …

the last two centuries. Modernization theory has assumed that growth will take place more or less place a and place, namely Western Europe and North America during the 19th century. Economic growth …

Modernization is a process of socio-cultural transformation. It is a thorough going process of change involving values, norms, institutions and structures.