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- Title
A FACTOR ANALYSIS OF THE INTERRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL AND POLITICAL VARIABLES AND PER CAPITA GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT.
- Authors
Adelman, Irma; Morris, Cynthia Taft
- Abstract
This article presents a study which examined the interaction between various types of social and political change with the level of economic development in less-developed countries in the period 1957 to 1972. The results of the analysis show that a remarkably high percentage of intercountry variations in the levels of economic development are associated with differences in non-economic characteristics. Thus it would appear that it is just as reasonable to look at underdevelopment as a social and political phenomenon as it is to analyze it in terms of intercountry differences in economic structure. That is not to say, of course, that economic forces do not play a significant role in accounting for cross-country variations in dynamic economic performance, especially once the take-off stage has been reached. Nor should the relationships found be interpreted in a causal sense. The results of the factor analysis neither demonstrate that economic growth is caused by socio-political transformations nor indicate that variations in development levels determine patterns of social and political change. Rather they suggest the existence of a systematic pattern of interaction among mutually interdependent economic, social and political forces, all of which combine to generate a unified complex of change in the style of life of a community.
- Subjects
SOCIAL change; POLITICAL change; ECONOMIC development; ECONOMIC structure; DEVELOPING countries
- Publication
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1965, Vol 79, Issue 4, p555
- ISSN
0033-5533
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1880652