阶段一，经济发展初始，经济不平等日增，政治参与扩大的社会-经济基础开始形成。 如果采取中产阶级模式，政治参与将扩大到都市中等阶层，经济将迅速合理地增长。与此同时，经济不平等也将日趋严重。......选举制度和议会制度的发展，为中等阶级的政治参与提供了途径，同样也促进了至少是短期的政治稳定。政治参与的扩大局限于日益强大的中等阶层的范围。在一段时期以后，由于经济增长造成的经济不平等和政治参与扩大的结果，中等阶层的发展变得缓慢起。
在第一阶段，社会也可能采取发展的专制模式。这种模式强调权力集中，压制中等阶层的政治参与，鼓励经济增长，并通过促进社会-经济平等的途径寻求下等阶层的支持，以对抗中等阶层。在促进这种平等时，基本问题通常都是当局能否运用国家权力推行有效的土地改革。
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Samuel Phillips Huntington (born April 18, 1927) is a political scientist known for his analysis of the relationship between the military and the civil government, his investigation of coup d'etats, and his thesis that the central political actors of the 21st century will be civilizations rather than nation-states. More recently, he garnered widespread attention for his analysis of threats posed to the United States by modern-day immigration. He is a professor at Harvard University. Huntington came to prominence as a scholar in the 1960s with the publication of Political Order in Changing Societies, a work which challenged the conventional view of modernization theorists that economic and social progress would bring about stable democracies in recently decolonized countries.
