POLSCI 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Francis Fukuyama, Islamic Democracy, Liberal Democracy
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Lecture will also be a review session for the midterm. Different from the democracy/dictatorship, freedom house & polity vi. Homework assignment will be done on the section"s country (taiwan) Analyze and graph the data found in two time periods. Julian huxley in the 1920s on religion: jettisoning an outdated piece of ideological. Marx believed a similar thing religion is the opiate of the masses . Modernization theory in the 1960s predicts rising (linear) secularism. As people become rich, religious beliefs go down, Francis fukuyama in the 1990s predicts the end of history and the last man. the permanent victory of democracy and liberalism. Not religion per say, but this attachment to liberal democracy is what will increase: religion and politics: an overview. A public and collective belief system that structures the relationship of the individual to the divine and supernatural.
