Why the confusion? Reasons and remedies for shortcomings and progress in modernization theory

Fritzsche, Erik; Vogler, Anselm

doi:10.1080/13510347.2020.1781093

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“…At the most general level, the findings are somewhat mixed and robust consensus is lacking. A recent meta-analysis of 33 individual empirical studies found no statistically significant and quantitatively meaningful relationship between income and democracy (Broderstad, 2018; see also Fritzsche and Vogler, 2020). However, a specific contemporary version of modernization hypothesis, which explicitly looks at a lagged relationship between the two variables and excludes oil-related income, received more empirical support (for a broad review, see Treisman, 2020).…”

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What is neoliberalism really? A global analysis of its real-world consequences for development, inequality, and democracy

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2023

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The notion that the world has been witnessing a profound neoliberal transformation since around the 1980s onward is widely accepted in many parts of social science and the humanities. Moreover, the overarching impression is that this transformation has mostly been regrettable in economic, political, and other social terms. At the same time, careful interdisciplinary research recently uncovered that neoliberalism has been notoriously hard to define. Based on that research, this article first clarifies the conceptual confusion surrounding neoliberalism and presents a broad, synthetic institutions-based working definition of it that captures its typical contemporary usages. The article then asks if a systematic empirical assessment of neoliberalism’s social impact over the past decades across the world is even possible. It suggests it is by empirically operationalizing neoliberalism in three distinct, yet potentially overlapping, ways that appear in the literature: first, as a broad set of economic institutions measured by economic freedom indexes; second, as the process of international trade liberalization (itself proxied by import shocks); and third, as shock-therapy type institutional reforms in (parts of) post-communist Europe. Synthesizing the findings of the existing vast research literature, the main conclusion of the article is that neoliberalism’s social impact has been more nuanced than suggested by prevailing discourse.

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“…The MT have emerged in both countries, with plenty of philosophies developed by the qualitative individuals of these countries. With the shortcomings and progressive approach of MT, the remedies and reasons have been widely stated with confusion ( Fritzsche and Vogler, 2020 ). It benefited the countries by developing potential relations of democracy and politics without the prevalence of ambiguity.…”

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The impact of globalization and modernization of laws and theories on the modernization of philosophy in Vietnam: mediating role of modern societies

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Why Non-Democracy Engages with Western Democracy-Promotion Programs

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2021

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Between the mid-1990s and the mid-2010s, the Chinese government was distinctly open to the Western offer of democracy-assistance programs. It cooperated with a number of Western organizations to improve the rule of law, village elections, administrative capacity, and civil society in China. Why did the Chinese government engage with democracy promoters who tried to develop these democratic attributes within China? The author argues that the government intended to use Western aid to its advantage. The Chinese Communist Party had launched governance reforms to strengthen its regime legitimacy, and Chinese officials found that Western democracy assistance could be used to facilitate their own governance-reform programs. The article traces the process of how the government’s strategic intention translated into policies of selective openness, and includes evidence from firsthand interviews, propaganda materials, and research by Chinese experts. The findings show how democracy promoters and authoritarian leaders have different expectations of the effects of limited democratic reform within nondemocratic systems. Empirically, reflecting on the so-called golden years of China’s engagement with the West sheds new light on the Chinese Communist Party’s survival strategy through authoritarian legitimation.

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Why the confusion? Reasons and remedies for shortcomings and progress in modernization theory

Cited by 6 publications

References 63 publications

What is neoliberalism really? A global analysis of its real-world consequences for development, inequality, and democracy

What is neoliberalism really? A global analysis of its real-world consequences for development, inequality, and democracy

The impact of globalization and modernization of laws and theories on the modernization of philosophy in Vietnam: mediating role of modern societies

Why Non-Democracy Engages with Western Democracy-Promotion Programs

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