POLS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Modernization Theory, Larry Diamond

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1000
• Professor: Charles Smith

Document Summary

Timing of the transformation, prospect towards democracy. Use modernization theory to examine burma and vice versa, to use modernization theory"s usefulness to explain what"s happening in burma. Modernization theory a sort of approach in 1950s/60s largely takes for granted meaning its capitalists. When we talk about modernization theory, we talk about the notion that capitalists development goes hand in hand for certain consequences. Modernization theorists capitalists lay foundation for forces that lead to democratization, in particular the strengthening of the middle class. Modernization theorists have suggested that the rise of the middle class, does not relate back demand or democracy. Critique of modernization theory: few countries have not undergone a process of industrialization while being democracies; only became democracies they have undergone the transformation of capitalist (industrial capitalists) They have undergone a change to nation state. Not all parts of countries, in germany experiments in democratizations in. 1920s then return the most form of dictatorship, most cruel way.