radical government and modernization stochastic games. I find that modernization occurs in a collectivist economy when the … in power, the leader credibly commits to provide more public goods in the future, and thus modernization occurs …. Underdevelopment occurs at intermediate levels of state enforcement, modernization at low levels and centralization at high levels of …

gap, but the process of modernization of agriculture in the United States is older than Brazil, and even closing the gap …Brazilian agriculture has undergone a process of transformation in recent decades, being featured on the world …

The article deals with the social mechanism that connects modernization with democratization. Starting from a … antagonisms" inside the social subsystems than by class conflicts: The more modernization progresses, the stronger becomes the … short overview over the latest developments in the debate on modernization and democratization. In the second step, the …

key target for politically induced transformation and modernization. The study demonstrates the importance of a …

to parse competing explanations. The democratic deficit is comprehensible in terms of modernization, democracy waves, and …

modernization of the region: defined as economic development and social and cultural change. The intermediate variables (Davis and … level of modernization of the region is also evaluated. In order to assess the nature of the recent decline in the crude …