POLS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Secularism, Market Economy, Constitutionalism
15 Aug 2018
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Non-oil countries are more likely to be affected by bad economies than oil producing countries: most non-oil countries need aid from other countries like the us, saudi arabia, the. Most arab monarchies were not affected by the arab spring: no problem with succession. Large problem with succession, some have tried like mubarak in egypt. Only country involved in the arab spring to gain democracy is tunisia. Is a theory used to explain the process of modernization within societies and how democracies come about. Good theory to explain why democracies fail or succeed in certain countries. The more economical developed a country is the more likely it is to sustain a democracy. Countries with a gdp higher than usd are more likely to sustain a democracy than countries with gdp lower than usd: egypt gdp- , tunisia gdp- , saudi arabia- .
