account for various paths of political development "because it posits a link between economics and politics that is not conditional on institutions and culture and that presumes a definite endpoint—for example, an 'end of history'." See also Bielefeld School Consumerism Dependency theory Development criticism Ecological modernisation Globalization Gwangmu Reform timeline Idea of Progress Mass society Mediatization (media) Modernism Modernization theory (Nationalism) Progressive Era (US, early 20th century) Postmodernism Postmodernity Rationalization (sociology) References Bibliography Cammack, Paul Anthony, Capitalism and Democracy in the Third World: The Doctrine for Political Development. London: Leicester University Press, 1997 ; An intellectual history of American, Chinese, and Japanese views of modernity. Davidann, Jon Thares. The Limits of Westernization: American and East Asian Intellectuals Create Modernity, 1860–1960 (2019). Garon, Sheldon. "Rethinking Modernization and Modernity in Japanese History: A Focus on State-Society Relations" Journal of Asian Studies 53#2 (1994), pp. 346–366 online . Janos, Andrew C. Politics and Paradigms: Changing Theories of Change in Social Science. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986 , modernizers, traditionalists and post-moderns make state history (4 vol.) Munck, Gerardo L. "Modernization Theory as a Case of Failed Knowledge Production." The Annals of Comparative Democratization 16, 3 (2018): 37–41. Wucherpfennig, Julian, and Franziska Deutsch. 2009. "Modernization and Democracy: Theories and Evidence Revisited." Living Reviews in Democracy Vol. 1, p. 1-9. 9p. External links Comparative politics Development studies Sociocultural evolution theory Modernity