POLSCI 1G06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Authoritarianism, Planned Economy, Modernization Theory
15 May 2016
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Political science 1g06 2015 lecture 12a transitions to democracy. According to samuel huntington"s the third wave of democracy, democracy has expanded in 3 major historical waves. Reverse wave beginning in 1922 12 democracies. Reverse wave throughout 1960s and early 1970s 30 democracies. 122 states (freedom house as of 2013) One question this model raises is whether democracy will continue its forward march, whether the advance of democracy has stopped, or even whether we are on the precipice of a third reverse wave. Huntington argued that there were five factors that contributed to the. 3rd wave: some internal to the state in question, some external (i. e. the international environment) By the 1970s it was apparent that at least some authoritarian states - former high growth states - were stagnating economically. The lack of economic success undermined the legitimacy of these regimes. At the same time, other market-based authoritarian states experienced sustained economic growth.
