Search Results - subject:"modernization theory"

Echoes from Mozambique : did the idea of high modernism vanish?

Buur, Lars; Jacob, Thabit - 2024

Mozambique has become a significant destination for a diverse portfolio of investments in mining, liquid natural gas, power plants, industrial complexes and large-scale agricultural schemes. Acquiring investments across sectors has re-emerged as a top national priority, though few of these...

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A comment on jumping the gun : how dictators got ahead of their subjects (2023)

Sen, Sharmi; Maitra, Adit; Cameron, Alistair - 2023

Instructions: Hariri & Wingender add new nuance to the traditional wisdom that economic modernisation is a path to democracy. They show that the diffusion of repressive, military technologies, causes a decline in the number of democratisations in the following years, and argue that this is...

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Chinese Path to Modernization : Economic Analysis with Chinese Characteristics

Yin, Jun - 2024

Preface by Ping Xinqiao -- An Important Innovation Achievement of Economics Theory with Chinese Characteristics -- On Li Yining's contribution to economics -- Introduction -- I. Formation of Economics Theory with Chinese Characteristics -- II. The Framework Structure and Main Content of this...

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Non-Modernization : Power-Culture Trajectories and the Dynamics of Political Institutions

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James Alan - 2021

Modernization theory is a cornerstone of much of political science, despite the mounting evidence against its … outcome along the trajectory to the Despotic Leviathan. None of the three different paths we highlight support modernization … theory. Under the Absent Leviathan, there is no economic modernization. Under the Despotic Leviathan, economic growth …

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Non-Modernization : Power-Culture Trajectories and the Dynamics of Political Institutions

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James Alan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

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Guns and Ledgers : China and the East Asian World in the Age of Early Economic Globalization

Li, Bozhong - 2023

Chapter 1 What Kind of Book is This? -- Chapter 2 The World that Trade Created -- Chapter 3 The Military Revolution in the Era of Early Economic Globalization -- Chapter 4 The Big Shuffle: theEast Asian World in the Era of Early Economic Globalization -- Chapter 5 Fighting on Sea and Land:...

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