Huntington, Samuel P. "The Change to Change: Modernization, Development, and Politics." Comparative Politics v. 3 n. 3 (1971): 283-322.

It was not until the mid-1950s that a renaissance in the study of comparative politics got under way. Concern with modernization and the comparison of modern and traditional political systems was the 1st stage of the renaissance. In the early 1960s it evolved into a preoccupation with the concept of political development, approached by way of systems theory, statistical analysis, and comparative history. Concentration on political development in turn yielded to broader efforts to generate more general theories of political change in the late 1960s. Focus in this discussion is on the general theory of modernization (modernization in intellectual history, modernization revision), the concept of political development (definitions of the concept, approaches to political development), and theories of political change. In 1 theory, political change may be analyzed at 3 levels: 1) the rate, scope and direction of change in 1 component may be compared with the rate, scope and direction of change in other components; 2) changes in the power and content of 1 element of 1 component of the system may be compared with changes in the power and content of other elements of the same component; and 3) the relation between changes in power and changes in content for any 1 element.

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