Political Order & Decay'

In Huntington's Political Order and Political Decay, the author makes the distinction between established "legitimate" governments (U.S., Great Britain, Soviet Union) and governments in typically modernizing countries that "simply do not govern" (Asia, Africa, Latin America) (2). He also makes a distinction between political development and political decay, with the latter being the product of economic and social modernization in their early stages. Violence and instability characterize the political systems of modernizing countries, which Huntington argues developed because of "rapid social change and the rapid mobilization of new groups into politics coupled with the slow development of political institutions" (4).

The above contention is the author's main thesis of the book, and while America, Great Britain and the Soviet Union have also experienced rapid social change and mobilization of new groups into politics, Huntington maintains that they have stable, political institutions firmly in place that allow for t

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