Kessleman, Mark. "Order or Movement?: The Literature of Political Development as Ideology." World Politics 26 (Oct  1973): 139-154.

“The term ‘political development’ originated during the cold war. After WWII, the prevalent attitude in the United States toward the Third World resembled that toward Europe: Unless economic progress and political stability were encouraged by the United States these areas would turn Communist. Underlying foreign aid was the sober calculation that communism would lose its appeal nce men’s bellies were full. Robert Packenham repots that when AID officials were asked in the mid-60s how they viewed development, “one of the most common responses was, in effect, that political development is anti-Communist, pro-American political stability.”

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