SOSC 1910 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Structural Adjustment, Voting Age, Party System
3 Apr 2017
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We have seen how austerity programs and structural adjustment programs often intensified ethnic differences and contributed to ethnic and religious wars within different states. Today we turn our attention to democratization and look at how different regions experience different processes of democratization. Before we discuss these internal and external factors let"s broadly define democratization: and civil society. Instead this was democratization from above, the imposition of democracy from above. What we need is democratization from below, brought about by and with civil society. Let"s see what factors contributed to the trend toward democratization that has swept la from the early 1980s onward and has begun in africa in the late 1980s. Following the oil shocks of the seventies came a period of liberal lending particularly by those nations who accumulated assets during the oil shocks. In the past, trends toward liberalization were often mostly temporary and operated within a general pattern of authoritarian development.
