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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.
With his famous book Political Order in Changing Societies, published in 1968, the American political scientist and Harvard professor Samuel P. Huntington is considered to be one of the ”Founding Fathers” of neo-institutionalism, the historical institutionalism.
- Samuel P. Huntington
- 1968
- 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...
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
Huntington, Samuel P. "Political Development and Political Decay." World Politics v. 17 (3) (1965): 386-430. “Among the laws that rule human societies,” de Tocqueville said, “there is one which seems to be more precise and clear than all others.
Huntington, Samuel P. Political Order in Changing Societies. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968. Huntington’s foundational work on political development was controversial when it first appeared, in the midst of the Vietnam War, because it argued that order itself was an important goal of developing societies, independent of the question ...
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Aug 5, 2009 · Among influential writers in the field of political development and comparative politics in the last two decades few have excelled Samuel P. Huntington. With a prudent economy of basic concepts, Huntington has addressed a variety of political problems in many different kinds of societies.
