By Samuel P. Huntington. Yale University Press, 1968. Following the theory's initial rapid acceptance ... role in fostering the latter but not the former. Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy ...

In the middle of the 1970s, Zbigniew Brzezinski approached his friend, Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington, with a question: Is democracy ... needs a sweeping theory of modernity to ...

But with over two decades behind us, Joshua Kurlantzick contends that Huntington ... class revolt against democracy not only entirely dismisses the “modernization theory” of scholars but ...

In 1996 the political scientist Samuel Huntington ... its vision of liberal democracy as the horizon toward which post-Cold War societies were likely to converge. The Huntington thesis would ...