CHAPTER 8
Theories of Development
INTRODUCTION
The end of the second world war saw the diffusion of democracy to relatively newer geographies. This period witnessed the rise of many newly independent countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. These countries were characterized by unique socio-cultural patterns, forms of economy, peculiar political challenges, and the trajectory of nation-building in these societies were bound to be different from their western counterparts. Hence the field of comparative analysis extended to investigate the ecological factors underlying these countries and these efforts gave birth to the school of modernization theory and later its critique in the form of dependency theory.
MODERNIZATION THEORY
Modernization ...
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