PSCI 2401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research, Nations Of Nineteen Eighty-Four, Ronald Inglehart
7 Dec 2015
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Development and democracy: what we know about modernization today. Industrial revolution: syndrome of social changes linked with industrialization, overall trend: in the long run, modernization brings democracy, sustained economic growth led to two visions of modernization. Communist: both competed but were similar in terms of: Believing that the developing nations of the third world would follow the path of modernization. Producing for the world market brings economic growth; investing the returns in human capital and upgrading the workforce to produce high-tech goods brings higher returns and enlarges the educated middle class. Once middle class is large and articulate enough, it presses for liberal democracy: most effective political system for advanced industrial societies: ex: rapid economic growth of east asia and the subsequent democratization of. Modernization theory"s central premise: economic development does tend to bring important, roughly predictable changes in society, culture and politics.
