Almost no one disagrees with the goals sought: to achieve development, farm-to-market roads need to be built, dams constructed and power capacity increased, loans and investments secured, productivity increased, and so on. The questions are not over the goals but how best to achieve them. Whether the U.S./European model is appropriate for today’s developing nations, and what the sequence of development ought to be. For example, the model of agrarian reform pushed by developmental economists often has a striking resemblance to rural Wisconsin (where, in fact, the principal advising agency on Third World agrarian reform, the Land Tenure Center at the University of Wisconsin, was located); the model of citizen participation came out looking like a romanticized version of a participatory New England town meeting; and parson’ “pattern variables” as well as Almond’s “functional categories” produced a political system that too closely reflected an idealized version of the United Stages. Now, most of us are admirers of the American political system but no one in their right mind believes it can be replanted and imitated, lock, stock, and barrel, in such impoverished places as Haiti, Somalia, East Timor, Afghanistan, or Iraq.