POLSCI 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Planned Economy, Authoritarianism, Modernization Theory
17 May 2017
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According to samuel huntington"s the third wave of democracy, democracy has expanded in 3. Best understood under three waves if we want to look at how democracy has spread major historical waves. Reverse wave beginning in 1922 12 democracies. 1820s until 1920s 29 democracies: first in the us and then etc, 29 democracies by 192. Reverse wave throughout 1960s and early 1970s 30 democracies. 125 states (freedom house as of the end of 2015: the wave with the biggest amplitude, latin america, authoritarianism fell in the 1990s. By the 1970s it was apparent that at least some authoritarian states - former high growth states - were stagnating economically. At the same time, other market-based authoritarian states experienced sustained economic growth. However, rather than offering further legitimacy to the authoritarian government, the growth produced the social conditions that would undo authoritarian leadership (modernization theory argument: middle class, change in the political culture of the catholic church.
