POL101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter Kaplan: Tyrant, World Economic Forum, Authoritarianism
Document Summary
There tends to be an idealisic view emerging from the word democracy, which is romanicized as the model poliical system. Kaplan clearly explains that democracy must result from a series of pre-requisites to be a success. Finally, kaplan elaborates on corporate globalizaion in democraic states and their inluence on today"s society. To begin, the post-cold war ideal for spreading democracy has been successful to an extent for those who were ready to introduce this type of regime. Kaplan thoroughly explains the pre-requisites to successfully administer a democracy, which includes the presence of a large middle-class, high literacy rates and reliable bureaucraic insituions. Firstly, the existence of large middle-class results in social stability. Middle-classes oten emerge from authoritarian systems, which kaplan describes as a precursor to democracy. The common people are usually comfortable with the status quo as they simulate economic growth. An example of the importance of a middle-class is chile.
