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  1. Political Development and Democratization. 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 ...

  2. Jan 5, 2011 · Samuel Huntington transformed political science by dealing a fatal blow to modernization theory and highlighting the importance of political order and culture, but he was wrong in saying that democracy cannot have universal application.

  3. 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.

  4. Focus in this discussion is on the general theory of modernization (modernization in intellectual history, modernization revision), the concept of political development (definitions of the concept, approaches to political development), and theories of political change.

  5. 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.

  6. Changing Societies (1968), Huntington has extolled the virtues of organization, identifying it with some highly desirable political goals. In the concluding chapter of his book Huntington wrote: 1 See Henry C. Kenski and Margaret C. Kenski, "Teaching Political Development at American Colleges and Universities," Western Political

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  8. Jan 6, 2011 · Political Order pointed out that from the vantage point of the year 1968, political development was not occurring in much of the recently independent, former colonial world. The world was...