The Literature Network - Modernization and modernity: Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, and political development.(Essay)

Modernization and modernity: Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, and political development.(Essay)

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From: Perspectives on Political Science
Date: 20080101
Author:Winborne, Warner R.

Abstract: The study of political development has proceeded absent an understanding of the nature of political development. A review of the literature indicates that political development is equated with liberalism, while a recourse to the history of political thought defines liberalism in terms meaningful to an analysis of development. This synthesis of comparative politics and political philosophy suggests new ways in which political development may be understood and measured.

Keywords: liberal dynamic, liberalism, political development, Singapore, Thailand

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