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 …

RATIONAL CHOICE Evolutionary modernization theory argues that whether one grows up perceiving survival as precarious or secure, together with enduring cultural difference, has a …

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 few years ago, the demise of modernization theory was widely celebrated. Under a sustained barrage of criticism from dependency and neo-Marxist theories, it was in poor health and …

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

Oct 5, 2006 · Modernization consists of a gradual differentiation and specialization of social structures that culminates in a separation of political structures from other structures and …

We review the literature on the relation between socio-economic development and political democracy, a field that is commonly known as modernization theory.