Developmentalism - a new approach in comparative politics area

This article discusses the contribution of the theory of developmentalism by the alternative ways that it proposes in development area. This theory generated much criticism and demonstrated ambiguity, but it has gained importance by focusing on imperative of social change. It becomes important the ideological dispute between the two rival systems: the capitalist development model, proposed by demo-liberal West, based on Max Weber’s conception of capitalist development and the communist model that proposed the solution of socialist growth. The marxist-leninist theory centered on class struggle formed the basis for the dependence theories. This new approach in the aria of comparative politics goes beyond the descriptive comparativism, limitated to a single case and it focused on different areas of political, social, cultural, economic and not just geographically.