Ann Ruth Willner’s research while affiliated with Yale University and other places

... They emphasized the apologetic aspect of Development theories in relation to foreign policy, but they did not ignore the effects of a conservative reconstruction of social and political reality on the interpretation of Third World change. From the mid-1960s on, scholars interested in and critical of mainstream interpretations of Third World Development began to emphasize the connection between such interpretations and trends in the social sciences (Willner, 1964;Mazrui, 1968;Bodenheimer-Jonas, 1970;O'Brien, 1972;Ocampo and Johnson, and Frank, in Cockroft, Frank, and Johnson, 1972;Kesselman, 1973;Tipps, 1973;and Packenham, 1973). 12 Collectively, the criticisms of these writers pointed to the impact of an elitist, pluralist, equilibrium model of political change and its antidemocratic tendencies. ...

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Managing Political Change: Social Scientists and the Third World