POLS 342 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Eof, Bourgeoisie, World Economy
25 Feb 2014
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What happens in independence is important to understand what happens after: moment of independence. Split takes place that lasts up until this day between conservatives and liberals: early to middle of 19th century (moment of independence, these societies are dominated by criollos (born in sa but of european descent). Natural divide between them, some live in the cities/close to government, some live in large estates near the capital. Spanish colonial powers (this pattern is seen in almost all colonial powers). Promot strong central authority- want to recreate the authority that spain had over the colonies with them holding the reigns of power, believe that columbia should be united etc. Believe in a limited franchise= only people with massive amounts of property care about the land and thus they are the only ones who should vote but only the elites have this. Thus there is a democracy but one where only the elites get to vote.
