Modernization theory is a theory used to explain the process of modernization that a nation goes through as it transitions from a traditional society to a modern one. Political modernization may also be used of political development of a previously nonmodern or semimodern political system to a higher level of political modernity. In political discourses, it refers to successful and enduring adaptation of a nontraditional political system to societal change in a way which secures system maintenance and political innovation. Political modernisation and the environment pp 3551 cite as. With the american century and the vision of a pax americana reaching its climax, economic, political, and social development elsewhere in the world was increasingly viewed in the perspective of progressive.
Political modernization theory and environmental politics request. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Modernization refers to a model of a progressive transition from a premodern or traditional to a modern society. The endogenous explanation is a modernization theory. One popular model combines political development state and nationbuilding, participation, redistribution, economic growth, and social mobilization with cultural. Globalization can be defined as the integration of economic, political and.
Political modernization is regarded as the result of economic development and social mobilization but according to huntington political modernization containing three more elements in addition to economic development and social mobilization. Modernisation and dependency repub, erasmus university. Political modernization an overview sciencedirect topics. The political modernization is modernization in the political field. Modernization theory emerged in the 1950s as an explanation of how the industrial societies of north america and western europe developed. A critical analysis in the changing world situation after the post 1945 era, the development of modernization theory in order to modernise the rest of the world in line with american development is interestingly significant in the history of development studies. The political modernization theory is a theory on the political modernization phenomena. Modernisation and dependency theories represent two rather different points in the spectrum of approaches to international development. Modernization and modernization theory in the social sciences after 1945. Modernization theory an overview sciencedirect topics. Thus the theory of modernization as an explanation for democratization has demonstrated great explanatory power concerning developments in unlike countries. It is a fieldbased theory of the modernization theories. International journal of innovative technologies in social science issn 2544 9338 theories of political modernization and modern paradigms.
Characteristic for an analytical perspective on political modernisation is, firstly, to link policy analysis to sociological and political science theories. Modernization theory is used to explain the process of modernization within societies. The basic assumption of this theory, in any of its versions, is that there is one general end page 157 process of which democratization is but the final stage. Modernization consists of a gradual differentiation and specialization of social structures. The theory argues that societies develop in fairly predictable stages through which they become increasingly complex. M and others published political modernization theory and environmental politics find, read and cite all. Modernization, modernization theory a term and approach that came into widespread use in the early 1960s, as a consequence of the efforts by a group of development specialists in the united states to develop an alternative to the marxist account of social development. After world war ii, modernization theory in a more limited, very specific sense emerged in the context of american social science, and american postwar political culture in general.