Modernizimi dhe Demokracia: Një Vlerësim Kritik ndaj Teorisë së Modernizimit në Studimin e Demokratizimit
Modernism and democracy: a critical approach to the theory of modernism

Summary/Abstract: The last decades of the XX century have known a considerate progress of changes towards democracy. That is why the study of democracy and democratization would built a school of thought embraced by many scholars of different disciplines, trying to answer one the main question of this process: what the factors that make possible the appearance and stability of democratic regimes in different countries? Different theories offer numerous tools to prove scientific evidences but one of the most prominent theories is the theory of modernism, based on the tradition of research imposed by Martin Lipset (1959). Its main claim is that it exists a correlative relationship between the social-economic development and democracy. This article tries to evaluate this thesis, discussing about main contribution done to this theory, dealing especially with critics addressed to it such as being a-historical, teleological from the point of social change it proposes.

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