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By Samuel P. Huntington

ISBN-10: 0300116209

ISBN-13: 9780300116205

This now-classic exam of the improvement of potential political associations in rising countries is an immense and enduring contribution to fashionable political research. In a brand new Foreword, Francis Fukuyama assesses Huntington’s success, studying the context of the book’s unique book in addition to its lasting importance.
“This pioneering quantity, analyzing because it does the relation among improvement and balance, is an engaging and interesting addition to the literature.”—American Political technology Review
“’Must’ analyzing for all these attracted to comparative politics or within the examine of development.”—Dankwart A. Rustow, Journal of overseas Affairs

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Conceivably this process could have resulted in the dis- POLITICAL ORDER AND POLITICAL DECAY 27 placement of one set of governing institutions by another, and some American experts and some Soviet leaders did think that governmental organizations rather than party organizations would become the ruling institutions in Soviet society. Such, however, was neither the intent nor the effect of Stalin's action. He increased his personal power, not the governmental power. When he died, his personal power died with him.

During and after World War II the Central Committee seldom met. The party secretariat and party hierarchy were weakened by the creation of competing organs. Conceivably this process could have resulted in the dis- POLITICAL ORDER AND POLITICAL DECAY 27 placement of one set of governing institutions by another, and some American experts and some Soviet leaders did think that governmental organizations rather than party organizations would become the ruling institutions in Soviet society. Such, however, was neither the intent nor the effect of Stalin's action.

Then ask them to identify the five strongest presidents and the five weakest presidents. If the identification of strength with goodness and weakness with badness is not 100 per cent, it will almost certainly not be less than 80 per cent. Those presidents—Jefferson, Lincoln, the Roosevelts, Wilson—who expanded the powers of their office are hailed as the beneficent promoters of the public welfare and national interest. Those presidents, such as Buchanan, Grant, Harding, who failed to defend the power of their institution against other groups are also thought to have done less good for the country.

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