... assumptions of modernization, ecological modernization, energetics, and even world-systems analysis of energy “transition,” this paper offers a world-systems perspective on the “raw” materialism of coal. Examining the material characteristics of coal and the unequal structure of the world-economy, the paper...

... tentatively argue that the modern form of development has constrained the potential for the sustainability goals to feed back into each other. sustainability modernization inequality structural equation modeling reciprocal effects While the modernization framework provides this argument about...

... of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2015 Development Modernization Developmental Idealism Cultural Models Social Change Globalization In a 2001 paper and a 2005 book, Arland Thornton introduced the concept of developmental...

... of the University of California. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Rights and Permissions website, http://www.ucpressjournals.com/reprintInfo.asp . 2015 Development Modernization...

...Shiri Noy; Patricia A. McManus Are health care systems converging in developing nations? We use the case of health care financing in Latin America between 1995 and 2009 to assess the predictions of modernization theory, competing strands of globalization theory, and accounts of persistent cross...

...Shiri Noy; Patricia A. McManus Are health care systems converging in developing nations? We use the case of health care financing in Latin America between 1995 and 2009 to assess the predictions of modernization theory, competing strands of globalization theory, and accounts of persistent cross...

... reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Rights and Permissions website, http://www.ucpressjournals.com/reprintInfo.asp . 2015 modernization dependency institutions Latin America development...