PLCP 3630 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Political Machine, Radical Change, Artists And Repertoire

• School: University of Virginia
• Department: Politics-Comparative Politics
• Course: PLCP 3630
• Professor: Echeverri- Gent John

Document Summary

Elaborate the broader significance of their response. Express an insightful criticism of a reading"s perspective. According to most conventional criteria, india should not have democratized. India had among the lowest economy/gdp in the world. Many people argue that countries are more industrialized are more likely to democratized because working class will demand - alternatively from demands from business. At the time of its independence, india had an extremely low level of industrialization. The more urban the society, the more people can interact with each other - facilitates groups at the bottom to consolidate. At the time of its independence, india was a very rural population (over 80%) In the us, we think about the middle class as the bastion of democracy. India at the time had a middle class that was less than 5% of the population. Many believe that ethnic groups will want to advance their own interests. India is huge : in terms of territory and population.