POLSCI 2XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: United States President'S Commission On Cia Activities Within The United States, Modernization Theory, Liberal Democracy
29 Nov 2017
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Premise: technological creativity precedes capital formation: capitalist before capitalism. Antecedents: august comte"s positivism (stages of human thinking development, max weber"s elected a nity between the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism. Development is the irreversible, one-directional, unilinear, evolutionary voyage a traditional to a modern society. Modernization: transition from traditional to modern principles at indiv. and social organization levels, theories include: Theories of political development (optimistic equation: connection between economic development and political democracy) Low social mobility, traditional authority, extended family, ascription, particularism. Achievement, universalism, nuclear family, high social mobility, highly di erentiated. President kennedy"s alliance for progress (1961) the optimistic equation. First, economic growth -> social modernization -> a modern person -> lastly, participatory representative liberal democracy (institutionalization) Rockefeller report (1971), unexpected outcome more cubas than before . Alliance for progress as a counterinsurgency strategy. New role for the military: o"donnell"s criticism of political development theories. More socio-economic development = more likelihood of political democracy.
