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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.
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.
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.
Rapid increases in mobilization and participation, the principal political aspects of modernization, undermine political institutions. Rapid modernization, in brief, produces not political development, but political decay.
- Samuel P. Huntington
- 1965
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 ...
According to Huntington, political development, order and stability are all closely related to institutionalization, in so far as the type of political 1 Samuel P. Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies (New Haven, 1968), and the
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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 ...
