COMPARATIVE POLITICS: A METHODOLOGICAL CRITIQUE OF DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY

Three fundamental premises are the basis for any inquiry into methodology. First, to anticipate events that occur in the environment; then, to control events in the environment; and finally, to choose among the alternative outcomes available in the environment. That is why we study politics, whether municipal, national or international; so that we may be able to understand, to explain, to make judgments, to make recommendations, and, hopefully thereby, to make predictions about the nature a...