Dan Ziblatt In Defense of the Continued Relevance of the Barrington Moore Problematic

Hoisted from Comments: Dan Ziblatt writes:

After Barrington Moore: Draft for September 25, 2010 50th Anniversary Conference - Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Just taught Moore to my PhD students last week.

One amendment: while you are certainly correct that the "Moore problematique" has diminished relevance in the industrialized world of U.S. and Europe, it is very much alive and well in much of the world. Less relevant than his particular dependent variable (communism...