GVPT 280 Chapter Notes - Chapter Week 3: Neoliberalism, Autocracy, Benito Mussolini
16 Sep 2018
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In these cases, elites may see more utility in stepping aside and giving power to the people as long as they can keep at least some of their riches. If the lower classes are very poor, the upper class has more reason to see them as inferior. Forging democracy from below: as the salvadorian civil war of the 1990s ended, the government forcibly evicted leftist forces that had occupied valuable properties owned by wealthy individuals. During this process, two leaders were arrested and subject to excessive force. In response, rebels slowed down the process of cease-fire and demanded the release of the prisoners. Elites in these states condeded democracy because ending the insurgency militarily was more costly. Germany and japan: the emergence of a moderate faction within an authoritarian regime who initiates a period of political liberalization (russia, latin america, southern europe, political mobilization by a cross-class alliance of disenfranchised people (philippines,
