Editing Modernization theory (section)

===Barrington Moore and comparative historical analysis===
Another line of critique of modernization theory was due to sociologist [[Barrington Moore Jr.]], in his [[Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy]] (1966).<ref>Barrington Moore, Jr. ''Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World'', Beacon Press, Boston, 1966.</ref> In this classic book, Moore argues there were at least "three routes to the modern world" - the liberal democratic, the fascist, and the communist - each deriving from the timing of industrialization and the social structure at the time of transition. Counter to modernization theory, Moore held that there was not one path to the modern world and that economic development did not always bring about democracy.<ref>Jørgen Møller, ''State Formation, Regime Change, and Economic Development''. London: Routledge Press, 2017, Ch. 6.</ref>