Gilman, Nils (Author)
After a survey of modernization theory's origins and its role in forming America's postwar sense of global mission, Gilman offers a close analysis of the people who did the most to promote it in the United States and the academic institutions they came to dominate. He first explains how Talcott Parsons at Harvard constructed a social theory that challenged the prevailing economics-centered understanding of the modernization process, then describes the work of Edward Shils and Gabriel Almond in helping Parsonsian ideas triumph over other alternative conceptions of the development process, and finally discusses the role of Walt Rostow and his colleagues at M.I.T. in promoting modernization theory during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. By connecting modernization theory to the welfare-state liberalism programs of the New Deal, Gilman not only provides a new intellectual context for America's policies toward the Third World during the cold war, but also connects the optimism of the Great Society to the notion that American power and good intentions could prevent the post-colonial world from embracing communism. (Publisher)
...MoreEssay Review Stapleton, Darwin H. (2005) Essay Review: From Warfare to Welfare: Defense Intellectuals and Urban Problems in Cold War America, and: Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America. Comparative Technology Transfer and Society (pp. 187-191).
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