GOVT1107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Benjamin Disraeli, Rainbow Nation, Proletariat
13 Aug 2018
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In any of these four criteria are missing the regime is authoritarian. One really important point is that democracy does not equal democracy. In 2015 there were 89 democracies in the world (just fewer than 50%). Huntington"s waves" of democratisation: first wave (1820s - 1920s), second wave (1945 - 1960s), third wave (1974 - ). The rst and second waves were followed by reverse waves and is not really completely over as the world is still suffering from it. Democracy has been so rare historically because those that have power are wary about giving up this power. 1970s (e. g. spain and portugal): but not confucianism (e. g. lee yuan kew - authoritarian ruler of singapore from the 1970s to the 1990s - and asian values") as well as islam; however there are. East asian democracies such as taiwan and japan - they still have confucian cultures.
