POLSCI 2XX3 Lecture Notes - Modernization Theory, Middle Ages, Walt Whitman Rostow
14 Nov 2013
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Correlation cannot have democracy unless there s economic, social and individual development. Capitalism and democracy: there were no democracy before the expansion and consolidation of capitalism, long established economies are all democracies, correlation that is accepted from right to left; Right way in which historical development occurs; need economic growth and development in order to practice democracy. Left democracy is one way to disguise and to hide the fact that there s a greater degree of inequality; although everyone is equal on the surface because people have the right to vote. Modernization built on pluralist theories of democracy: correlation economic growth, parliamentary democracy, as countries in the developed world began to do what modernization theories were advocating; Assumption that all countries needed is the infusion of foreign capital; to get their economies started; accept capital from the outside; material aid that industrialized countries have been providing for so long to these.
