Modernization theory -- the belief that industrialization and economic development lead directly to positive social and political change -- has been a subject of intense scholarly and policy interest ...

It is obvious, then, why political modernization in China was not followed ... we can be sure the next installment of Fukuyama’s theory will be no different in its essentials from the first.

Alessandro Golombiewski Teixeira, former tourism minister of Brazil, said that a central argument of the Western modernization theory is that developing countries need to follow the same path as ...

During the 1960s, Levy was best known for his writing on modernization theory. His two-volume study "Modernization and the Structure of Societies" remains as the most systematic statement of that ...

The analysis of the theory of Chinese modernization is fundamentally about caring for a country with a vast population, based on a deep synthesis of experiences and lessons learned from both ...