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Dec 29, 2016 · Huntington states that it is important to define political development as the institutionalization of political organizations and procedures. Such a characterization would separate development from modernization and can be applied to the analysis of political systems of any sort, not just modern ones.
- Civil-Military Relations
- Political Development and Democratization
- American Politics
- The Clash of Civilizations
Huntington’s first major work, The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations(1957), develops a theory of civil-military relations and inaugurated the systematic academic study of the subject. The book is intended to correct “a confused and unsystematic set of assumptions and beliefs derived from the premises of Amer...
Political Order in Changing Societies (1968) remains Huntington’s most influential work among social scientists and policy strategists. It launched a wide-ranging challenge to the fundamental premises of “modernization theory,” then the dominant paradigm for understanding political development in the Third World. According to modernization theorist...
In the first of his two major works on American politics, Huntington addresses a central paradox at the heart of American political culture.American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony(1981) argues that the liberal moralism of the American creed stands in enduring tension with the requirements of American power: “The gap between promise and perform...
The article “The Clash of Civilizations” (1993) and subsequent book The Clash of Civilization and the Remaking of World Order(1996) increased Huntington’s renown. “Not intended to be a work of social science,” the work sets out to develop a new paradigm of international relations following the fall of the Soviet Union. “It is my hypothesis,” he wri...
In much of the world today, equality of political participation is growing much more rapidly than is the “art of associating together.” The rates of mobilization and participation are high; the rates of organization and institutionalization are low.
THE IDEA OF POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT: From Dignity to Efficiency By HARRY ECKSTEIN FROM one point of view, the study of political development is a major area of achievement in recent political inquiry; from an-other, which matters more, it is a conspicuous failure. What has been achieved is great and rapid growth. The study of
Samuel P. Huntington's most recent book, American Politics: The Prom-ise of Disharmony,' is an original and intriguing account of American political history. Underlying this history, according to Huntington, is an enduring consensus on democratic political ideals, and this consensus explains both the political institutions we have and also a ...
What Huntington’s book did was simply to point out from the vantage point of 1968 that political development was not occurring in much of the recently independent, former colonial world. At that point in history, that world was characterized by coups, civil wars, upheavals, political instability.
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To that end, three major themes are explored: (1) the question of the relationship between theory and reality in the study of political change in the third world; (2) the changing relationship between society and development, focusing on the kinds of changes that have taken place, their determinants, and political consequences; and (3) the ...
