In March 2009, Foreign Affairs magazine published the article “How Development Leads to Democracy,” by Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel, two of the most well-known political scientists in the ...
Inglehart is one of the last great postwar exponents of modernization theory, which sees economic development as leading to shifts in society toward liberal democracy. Modernization theory has gone in ...
At every critical historical juncture, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has consistently been able to scientifically grasp the historical direction and evolving circumstances, formulate correct ...