1. Alfred Meyer, “The Soviet Political System,” in Erik P. Hoffmann and Robbin F. Laird, eds., The Soviet Polity in the Modern Era (Hawthorne, NY: Aldine Publishing Co., 1984), pp. 753–70.
2. Barrington Moore, Terror and Progress, USSR (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1954); Alex Inkeles, “Models and Issues in the Analysis of Soviet Society,” Survey 60 (July 1968), pp. 3–17; Gabriel A. Almond and Laura Roselle, “Model Fitting in Communism Studies,” in Frederic J. Fleron Jr. and Erik P. Hoffmann, eds., Post-Communist Studies and Political Science: Methodology and Empirical Theory in Sovietology (Boulder: CO: Westview Press, 1993), p. 39.
3. James Coleman, “Conclusion: The Political Systems of the Developing Areas,” in Gabriel A. Almond and James Coleman, eds., The Politics of the Developing Areas (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1960); Karl Deutsch, “Social Mobilization and Political Development,” American Political Science Review 55:3 (September 1961), pp. 493–514; Seymour Martin Lipset, “Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy,” American Political Science Review 53:1 (January 1959), pp. 69–105; Alex Inkeles and David Smith, Becoming Modern (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974).
4. Almond and Roselle, “Model Fitting in Communism Studies,” p. 39.
5. See Fleron Jr. and Hoffmann, eds., Post-Communist Studies and Political Science. For detailed analysis; see especially Almond and Roselle chapter for overview of various models and their evolutions over time, pp. 27–75.