POLSCI 3Y03 Lecture : Poli Sci 3Y03 MARCH 4-7, 2014.docx
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Previous class - democratic transitions and reference to non-democratic countries as well their movements to democratic regimes. Spanish civil work - canadians joined the working classes of spain and went to fight franco; As many of the mediterranean countries followed by the end of latin american dictatorships, etc. began to join the democratic ways. What we had today is better than what we had previously . Pervasiveness of globalization and the neoliberal economic model and the collapse of the communist alternative, it is common sense to assume that there are no alternatives to capitalist democracy. Once communism collapsed, democracy and as such capitalism has prevailed*** People live with the auspice that they live in democracy because they have competitive elections, held regularly every four years, etc: since russia, nigeria and bolivia have regular elections, we can say that they are democracies .