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International Journal of Politics and Good Governance Volume VIII, No. Quarter II 2017 ISSN: 0976 1195 1 MODERNIZATION THEORY AND THIRD WORLD DEVELOPMENT: AN EXEGESIS OF THEORETICAL SARCASM Jacob Tagarirofa Great Zimbabwe University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Zimbabwe ABSTRACT The essay sought to explore the efficacy of MODERNIZATION THEORY as a pragmatic development model for developing countries. This endeavor was enabled through a cross-examination of the salient tenets of the MODERNIZATION THEORY s prescriptions. The exegesis was premised on the interface of the MODERNIZATION paradigm with the multifarious social, political and economic realities of the developing countries. The paper adopted a multi-case study approach in which findings were based on different socio-economic and political cases of developing countries, insofar as the efforts to modernize were not particular but universal.
Rostow’s prescription of technological innovation and favorable international environment as subsequent conditions seems rhetorical since developed countries such as United States had already affirmed authority on the international arena. It is the writer’s opinion that, if Rostow mentioned these conditions whilst
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