CONSENSUS, CONFLICT, AND INTERNATIONAL STRATIFICATION THEO'RIES OF MODERNIZATION: AN EVALUATION

Modernization: Theories and Facts

Our purpose is to distinguish two theories that relate economic development and democracy and to examine some facts in light of these theories. While ultimately the interesting questions concern the mechanisms that mediate between economic development and the dynamics of political regimes, we must nevertheless identify the facts to be explained before plunging into explanations. Hence, we stick...

an investigation into iranian teachers consistency and bias in evaluation of students writings

while performance-based language assessment has led to an increased authenticity and content validity in the practice of writing assessment, the reliability of ratings has become a major issue. research findings have shown different reactions by native english speaker (nes) and non-native english speaker (nns) teachers to students’ writings. the focus of this study is on investigating whether i...

Conflict in Nepali society: a look from the theories of state, modernization and government

Nepal, as an emerging state, is facing serious challenges of failure over the decades. The indigenous notion of state has been in pressure over the decades in the process of modernization and other interventions of external forces. Various social and political contradictions, controversies and conflict have been blown up over the years at higher intensity and dynamics. A bloodthirsty insurgency...

1 toward a Better Understanding of Theories of International Conflict

i pass with relief from the tossing sea of cause and theory to the arm ground of result and fact. —winston churchill, 1898 Social science, like any science, achieves progress through the accumulation of systematic knowledge. To improve our collective understanding of international politics we need to regularly assess both the empirical regularities observed in the world around us and the theori...

Consensus theories. An oriented survey