developmentalistn.adj.

1862 Temple Bar May 215 According to the developmentalists..the various races of men..gradually developed themselves in the progress of ages, from lower forms of animal life.

1882 G. W. Tryon Struct. & Systematic Conchol. I. 222 It is therefore impossible to derive them from the Nautilidæ, as supposed by some developmentalists.

1936 M. T. Hodgen Doctrine of Survivals iii. 72 All developmentalists were committed to the search for social origins.

1957 Antiquity 31 215 Opposition to the independent developmentalists came from those who could demonstrate..the diffusion of certain traits.

1978 Crit. Inq. 5 127 To the committed developmentalist, the multifarious ways in which developmental stages may be realized ‘in the real world’ are all equally germane to any treatment of development in a given domain of behaviour and knowledge.

2003 L. Moss What Genes can't Do Introd. p. xv An ongoing dialectic between genetic determinists at the center and developmentalists at the margins.

1963 World Today Nov. 483 The ‘desenvolvimentistas’ (‘developmentalists’), led by Kubitschek, see salvation in the resumption of the policy of accelerated development.

1969 Foreign Affairs 48 103 The potential role of a modernized agricultural sector in revitalizing industrialization has also become a key argument of developmentalists.

1991 Jrnl. Southern Afr. Stud. 17 517 Vitor Hugo de Azevedo Coutinho's..views were basically those of a colonial developmentalist, although he was a conservative and cautious in his approach to the basic problems of the colony.

2007 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 14 Dec. i. 15/2 After the Soviet Union collapsed officially in 1991, American economists and developmentalists..intervened on many levels to ‘democratize’ Russia.

1936 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 June 524/1 Questions for which the current developmentalist methodology has no answer.

1951 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 12 604 An origin or ‘seed’ is an essential element in developmentalist schemes resting on the biological analogy.

1976 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 37 153 The classical developmentalist or evolutionist doctrine is thus significantly altered by Maine.

2000 Austral. Jrnl. Anthropol. 11 1 Howitt entered the stream of anthropological debate just when an originist ‘ethnology’ was transforming into a developmentalist ‘anthropology’ in Britain.

1964 World Today Dec. 508 Conflicts between the agricultural vested interests..and the urban-industrial groups and their nationalist developmentalist ideologues.

1974 M. C. Tavares in J. Cotler & R. F. Fagen Latin Amer. & U.S. iii. 305 In the public sector there has been an expansion of large public firms and of a developmentalist (desarrollista) state apparatus.

1991 Dædalus Summer 47 The collapse of the developmentalist vision that provided regimes throughout the area with postindependence legitimacy.

2014 V. Asthana & A. C. Shukla Water Security in India iii. 68 Despite the government's developmentalist approach, the dam projects were not well received by the local people.