POL SCI 50 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Supermajority, Kik, Lower House
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Barrington moore: mode of production theorist, emergence of powerful independent capitalist class leads to democracy (did not happen in. France: key suppositions: (cid:862)no (cid:271)ourgeoisie, (cid:374)o de(cid:373)o(cid:272)ra(cid:272)y(cid:863) (cid:894)plight of the (cid:373)iddle class) If desire democracy, eliminate peasant class especially before democratic institutions begin to emerge. France had a lot of wineries which required peasants. Commercialization of countryside must make bourgeoisie class independent of monarch. Sheep ranches drove the peasants away in britain. Balance of power between landed class aristocracy and emergent bourgeoisie class. Aristocracy allied with monarchy to rule over the peasants in france which perpetuated absolute monarchical system: french revolution was not a working class revolution. Caused (cid:271)y (cid:862) a(cid:374)s culottes(cid:863): appre(cid:374)ti(cid:272)es that (cid:449)orked like ser(cid:448)a(cid:374)ts. Without opportunities to seek own shops, they became the angry mob of the revolution: france had powerful peasantry and weak bourgeois class which leads to. Periods of authoritarian government supported by conservative peasants. Democratic efforts will strengthen as peasantry diminishes.
