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Political Decay
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I am going to start by defining the concept of political decay. The article by Samuel P. Huntington is a good place to start. The article contains different perspectives on political development, such as political development as modernization, and also demonstrates the connection between political development and political decay. The article contains a concise definition of the concept of political decay (p. 393) as a government losing its capacity to perform a specific function.
The section on the definition of political decay can be supplemented with information from Fukuyama's book. This provides an overview of different examples of the development of the concept of order and decay. This section can include a broad overview of the various different reasons that political decay occurs and its effects it has on society. The cause and response to political decay can have their own sections
The other articles focus more on this form of political decay in specific regions such as India, Europe during the late eighteenth century and Southwest Asia. This can be its own section as examples of political decay around the world. Most of these articles are not recent, many of them were written in the early seventies.
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Intro
Huntington provides different definitions for political development and describes the form of political decay according to the various definitions. Huntington focuses primarily on political development as modernization and institutionalization. Although he points to the different definitions of political development as being arbitrary ways to understanding the rise of political systems and the relationship between the political systems in different nations.
Modernization
According to Huntington's definition of political development as modernization, political decay is the opposite of the linear idea of social progress. Although, within the model of modernization, social regression is not possible. Instead, political decay takes place because "modern and modernizing states can change by losing capabilities as well as by gaining them. In addition, a gain in any one capability usually involves costs in others."[1] The model of modernization was used compare the political systems of different countries with social development reflecting the linear progression of political institutions. [2]
Institutional
Under the framework of political development as institutional development, political decay occurs when institutions fail to change or adapt when they become unnecessary due to social or economic changes. Dan Halvorson challenges the idea of political decay as an institutional failure by claiming that the idea of political decay is tied to a Western ideal of political institution without taking into account widely varying cultural institutions and the inability of post-colonial states failing to adapt to Western ideals.[3] Fukuyama refers to political decay as the social and economic forces that upset the equilibrium of established political order.[4]
Instability
Different social and economic factors contribute to both the political development as well as the political decay of nations. Outside forces such as foreign governments effect the stability of established governments due to contrasting social institutions or economic interests. In order to be considered stable government procedures and institutions must maintain autonomy and be resistant to outside agents.[5]
Bibliography
Samuel P. Huntington. "Political Development and Political Decay" World PoliticsVol. 17 No.3(1965)
Maisel, Louis Sandy, and Joseph Cooper. Political Parties, Development and Decay. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1978.
Rotberg, Robert I. When States Fail: Causes and Consequences. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004.
Fukuyama, Francis, The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
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- ^ Huntington, Samuel P.. "Political Development and Political Decay" World PoliticsVol. 17 No.3(1965): 393.
- ^ Huntington, Samuel P.. "Political Development and Political Decay" World PoliticsVol. 17 No.3(1965): 391.
- ^ Halvorson, Dan. States of Disorder: Understanding State Failure and Intervention in the Periphery. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2013. 19
- ^ Fukuyama, Francis, The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. 139
- ^ Samuel P. Huntington. "Political Development and Political Decay" World PoliticsVol. 17 No.3(1965).402