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Securing Authority: The View from the Top

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Raymond F. Hopkins
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Swarthmore College
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Although the literature on political development has been remarkably insightful, hopes for a science of “nation-building” have not been realized. While numerous works have described the effects of traditional patterns, ethnic and linguistic cleavages, and rapid mobilization, and have investigated factors such as culture, bureaucracy, ideology, and parties, we have learned very little about how to alter favorably the political conditions these have fostered. Political scientists, more often than not, have documented obstacles to, and failures in, political change desired by leaders in new states, rather than explored strategies whereby such change might be realized.

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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1972

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