POLI 319 Lecture 20: The perils and promises of democratic transition - 21st March
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The third wave of democratisation, democratisation with adjectives, and beyond. Today: talk about democratisation in latin america and very important concepts and themes put forth in this week"s unit; the readings by o"donnell and schmitter is the most influential piece about democratic transition in political science. The excerpt is from the broader book was published in 1986 even though the cold war wasn"t, there was a third wave of democratisation. Greece and turkey eventually and it swept through latin america and africa. Samuel huntington is the one who coined the phrase third wave of democratisation. It"s a process that falls short of full democracy; so latin american didn"t complete the transition: electoral democracies etc. The third wave of democracy: beginning in the late 1970s and ending in the mid-1990s, argentina, bolivia, brazil, chile, ecuador, el salvador, guatemala, honduras, nicaragua, peru and.