POL201Y1 Lecture : Third Wave Democracy
27 Apr 2011
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Portugal had never been a democracy just been through 1/2 century of fascist rule. Portugese armed forces was split into conservative moderate and marxist factions triumph of demo was beginning of long wave of democratic expansion that continued for 3 decades. When 3rd wave began, only 40 democracies in the world these 40 were in advanced countries- us canada, nz, japan, europe, india. Several carribbean democracies- more island states became independent and democratized. Military dictatorships were in asia, africa, middle east, Democracies expanded in greece transition to demo began. Spanish transition in late 1970s- miltary rule began to unravel in latin america military rule was more successful in chile and thus it was delayed to democratize. By mid 1980s demo spread to asia forcing withdrawal of korean military. 1991 pakistan, , bangladesh nepal became democracies. By 1987 the third wave has spread to 2/5 states in the world has democracies.
