Sentence examples for modernization hypothesis from inspiring English sources
Contrary to Przeworski et al. (2000) we find that the modernization hypothesis stands up well.
We retest the modernization hypothesis using new data, new techniques, and a three-way rather than dichotomous classification of regimes.
We revisit and critically reevaluate the widely accepted modernization hypothesis which claims that per capita income causes the creation and the consolidation of democracy.
It is important to underline the difference between our theory of political transitions and the modernization hypothesis (Lipset 1959), which claims that growth in per capita income causes the creation and consolidation of democracies.
Przeworski et al. (2000) challenge the key hypothesis in modernization theory: political regimes do not transition to democracy as per capita incomes rise, they argue.
Modernization theory states that with economic growth and modernization, gender differences in education will decrease.
Here, we review the hypothesis that cultural modernization may in fact establish unusually intense reproductive trade-offs in wealthy relative to impoverished strata, favoring low fertility.
This provides some support for parental investment models of modern fertility (Kaplan 1996; Kaplan et al. 2002; Mace 2007, 2008) and the associated hypothesis that cultural modernization favors socioeconomic leveling in fertility by intensifying reproductive trade-offs in wealthy and well-educated strata.
Perhaps the most controversial is the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis [10] and the theory of ecological modernization [11] which argue that environmental performance and per capita wealth follow a U-shaped relationship among countries.
