Abstract
The assumptions of universal unilinear development were articulated with Weberian theoretical and methodological perspectives to discover principles of organizing politics and administration in the new nations. The focus was on the capability of political organization in relation to its socio-economic environment. The organismic criteria of structural differentiation and integration were applied to political organization. Its development in terms of these criteria was viewed as political development: an immanent process with an evolutionary spillover. Political development so conceptualized came to be characterized by a collectivist orientation. It increasingly diverged from the norms of democratic-liberalism. As a concept it became oppressive and inimical to freedom. The need was to restore a normative emphasis to it.
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