Yutaka SASAKI
   Department   Kyoto University of Foreign Studies  Department of British and American Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies
   Position   Professor
Language Japanese
Publication Date 2016/07
Type Academic Paper
Peer Review Peer reviewed
Title American Political Science on the Eve of the Emergence of Modernization Theory in the 1950s : An Analysis of the Activities of the Committee on Comparative Politics of the Social Science Research Council in its Founding Years
Contribution Type Single author
Journal Academic Bulletin
Journal TypeJapan
Publisher Kyoto University of Foreign Studies
Volume, Issue, Page LXXXV,pp.83-105
Details This essay analyzes the activities of the Committee on Comparative Politics (CCP) of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) directed toward the development of modernization theory as an influntial paradigm of comparative politcs(CCP). It mainly examines the activites of the CCP in its initial phase by focusing on the intellectual process in which full-fledged modernization theory slowly took shape out of a constellation of ideas.