《变化社会中的政治秩序》凝住的关于发展中国家的知识广度和分析洞见是惊人的，并确立了亨氏作为他同时代人中最杰出政治学家之一的声誉。首先，亨廷顿论辩说，政治衰朽至少和政治发展一样可能发生。新近独立国家的实际经历是一种愈演愈烈的社会和政治混乱。其次，他提出，现代性中的好东西常常向交错的目标运动。特别是在社会动员超越政治机构发展时，新的社会行为者发现他们无法参与政治而产生挫折感。其结果便是亨氏名之为“普力夺主义”(praetorianism)的状况，也是导致反叛、军事政变以及软弱和组织不力政府的主要原因。经济发展和政治发展不是同一事物的严丝合缝的组成部分。后者随着诸如政党和法制系统之类组织的设立或衍变为更复杂的形式而具有自身的、另类的逻辑。
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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.
