POLSCI 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Liberation Theology, Second Vatican Council, Authoritarianism
1 Mar 2017
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Wave 1: 1820s until 1920s 29 democracies, united states and gradually spread to other places like canada and germany, reverse wave beginning in 1922 12 democracies. Wave 2: 1943 until 1962 36 democracies, looks like democracy is on the move, reverse wave throughout 1960s and early 1970s 30 democracies. 125 states (freedom house as of the end of 2015) Huntington argued that there were five factors that contributed to the 3rd: some internal to the state in question, some external (i. e. the international environment) wave, performance problems created a challenge to the legitimacy of some authoritarian regimes. By the 1970s it was apparent that at least some authoritarian states - former high growth states - were stagnating economically. The lack of economic success undermined the legitimacy of these regimes. Monday, february 6, 2017: economic growth created the social conditions for regime change in other authoritarian states. At the same time, other market-based authoritarian states experienced sustained economic growth.
