March 23rd
March 23, 2015 Democratization
1. Intro
2. Debating Paths to Democracy
a. Agency
b. Structural Theories
c. Others 3. Conclusions In a democracy, the media will spread the information about the nation’s famine and the president will take some action in order to help save his following presidential election. While in an authoritarian regime, the information wouldn’t be spread and the leader wouldn’t take action, but would lose his position. Colonizer, US Influence, Solidarity, Ideology, Economic Troubles are all independent variables that have lead to democracy Structural Prerequisite Arguments
Structure here= patterns, relationships, institutions that are deeply ingrained in society
(economic, social, cultural variables).
Structural Prerequisites: The structures that need to be in place before democracy can arrive and thrive.
1. Modernization Theory
Economic Development Democratization and Democratic Sustainability
“Once a society has embarked on industrialization, a whole syndrome of related changes, from mass mobilization to diminished differences in gender roles are likely to occur” (Inglehart 1997)
“All good things go together” 2. Theories on Economic Development & Democracy: Lipset
Industrialization > Urbanization, Education and the Growth of a Middle Class >
Democratization
In a traditional pyramid, all of the wealth is at the top of that pyramid, but most of the people own nothing and make up the bottom of the triangle. This is a traditional society. The elite are afraid of giving the bottom the right to vote because with that vote, the poor could overturn the elite's world. But now with the diamond, because of industrialization because now the poor won’t want to overturn society because they have a stake in that world and it would be detrimental to both of them.
Evidence for Economic Development> Democracy
● Correlation between economic development and democracy: high
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1. Intro
2. Debating Paths to Democracy
a. Agency
b. Structural Theories
c. Others 3. Conclusions In a democracy, the media will spread the information about the nation’s famine and the president will take some action in order to help save his following presidential election. While in an authoritarian regime, the information wouldn’t be spread and the leader wouldn’t take action, but would lose his position. Colonizer, US Influence, Solidarity, Ideology, Economic Troubles are all independent variables that have lead to democracy Structural Prerequisite Arguments
Structure here= patterns, relationships, institutions that are deeply ingrained in society
(economic, social, cultural variables).
Structural Prerequisites: The structures that need to be in place before democracy can arrive and thrive.
1. Modernization Theory
Economic Development Democratization and Democratic Sustainability
“Once a society has embarked on industrialization, a whole syndrome of related changes, from mass mobilization to diminished differences in gender roles are likely to occur” (Inglehart 1997)
“All good things go together” 2. Theories on Economic Development & Democracy: Lipset
Industrialization > Urbanization, Education and the Growth of a Middle Class >
Democratization
In a traditional pyramid, all of the wealth is at the top of that pyramid, but most of the people own nothing and make up the bottom of the triangle. This is a traditional society. The elite are afraid of giving the bottom the right to vote because with that vote, the poor could overturn the elite's world. But now with the diamond, because of industrialization because now the poor won’t want to overturn society because they have a stake in that world and it would be detrimental to both of them.
Evidence for Economic Development> Democracy
● Correlation between economic development and democracy: high
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