PSC 1001 Lecture 8: Regime Change
18 Mar 2019
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Country wealth is highly correlated with level of democracy: aristotle democratic politics only where people have some property , modernization theory: max lerner occurs in key stages. If people do not have wealth, they will take whatever the government gives you: resource curse- economic growth that relies on only one valuable resource inhibit democratization and growth. Provided over and covert support to communist insurgencies around the world. Regime change: changes in the catholic church- the catholic church is an influential globe non-state actor. In the 1960s, the church adopted a firmly pro-democratic stance. Shift towards activism in politics; in poland, the catholic church condemned the soviet union: brought about democratization of the third wave: poland, brazil, spain, chile, Mexico, brazil: democracy flourished late in catholic states, european union- eu membership can be achieved only by democracies, globalization- the spread of political and economic dynamic beyond the borders of any one particular country.
