POLI 279 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Apotheosis

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 279
• Professor: Mark Baron

Document Summary

Modernization theory : a liberal theory of development, tries to explain the global south, origins is american , why some develop and some don"t. Assumptions: theory that all states will develop. B)unidirectional: progressive ( process of moving from a highly unsophisticated uncomplicated society to sophisticated and simple to complex unpreferred-> preferred, all societies have prerequisites to develop, development is linear and evolutionary. W. w. rowstow ( rostovian model of development ); stages of economic growth. According to rowstow and every modernization theorist, all states first begin with an. Preconditions for take off ( located in the middle of linear graph : to be like the west . West is the apotheosis of development . ( meaning high point and ideal ) To be politically democratic and economically capitalist: modernization theorist believe this process happens at a differential rate. Not all develop at the same time: diffusion (radiate and spread from a centre) Change agent ( to speed up the development ?)