Far from being the force for change envisioned by Samuel Huntington and other advocates of modernization theory, the middle class in many young democracies is now actually acting as a brake on change.

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For instance, I was trained in graduate school by political scientists like the late Harvard professor Samuel Huntington (of The Clash of Civilizations fame) and economists like Janos Kornai, yet I am completely mystified by chemistry.

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Mr Fukuyama (a pupil of Samuel Huntington who wrote a seminal work on political order 40 years ago) begins his own search for the origins of political order with the shift from small hunting bands to tribes.

ECONOMIST: Theories of history