HISTORY 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Adam Przeworski, Failure Rate, Bourgeoisie
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Wmd used as one of the initial justifications of invading iraq. When the bush administration found no weapons of mass destruction in iraq. Us began justifying the iraq war on grounds of democratization. Adam przeworski (political science theorist of democracy and political economy): successful democratic transition common in countries with a per capita income of. or more: failure rate is 50% in countries with a per capita income of , countries with less than that often fail in efforts to democratize. Middle classes also hit hard by these factors. Unions had been coopted by the baath party. Unions were dissolved by paul bremer (leader of us occupational authority in iraq: bush administration didn"t want the workers organizing in order to disable iraqi working class. Bush administration thought that dissolving of nationalized industries would be replaced by private industries. Didn"t understand that individuals didn"t have the capital or experience to do so.
