L8 | DEMOCRACY
Cards (12)
- DEMOCRACY
- Greek: demokratia
- Demos - people
- Kratia - government
- DEMOCRATIZATION
- Process by which democracy expands, within a state or across the world.
- CLEISTHENES OR CLISTHENES
- Father of Athenian Democracy
- Ancient Athenian lawgiver credited with reforming the constitution of ancient Athens and setting it on a democratic footing in 508 BC
- Member of the aristocratic Alcmaeonid clan.
- ABRAHAM LINCOLN
- "Democracy is the government of the people, by people, for the people"
- ESSENTIAL INGREDIENTS
- Popular Support of Government
- Political Competition
- Alternation in Power
- Popular Representation
- Majority Rule
- DEMOCRATIZATION
- Popularized by Samuel Huntington.
- DEMOCRATIC WAVE
- Group of transitions from non democratic to democratic regimes that occur within a specified period of time and that significantly outnumber transitions in the opposite directions during that period of time
- FIRST WAVE
- 1828 - 1926
- Began in the early 19th century
- Suffrage was granted to the majority of white males in the United States ("Jacksonian democracy").
- Came France, Britain, Canada, Australia, Italy and Argentina, and a few others before 1900.
- FIRST REVERSE WAVE
- 1922 - 1942
- Collapse of many European democracies after WW1
- SECOND MAIN WAVE
- 1943 - 1962
- Occurred through the:
- Occupation of the Axis countries by the Allied powers following the end of WW2,
- Attempts at democratization in newly independent former British colonies during the postwar period
- Spread of democracy in Latin America.
- SECOND REVERSE WAVE
- 1958 - 1975
- Came with the reversion to military rule in much of Latin America
- Collapse of young democracies in Asia and Africa.
- THIRD MAIN WAVE
- Began with the overthrow of the military regime in Portugal in 1974.
- Expansion of democracy worldwide (25 yrs)
- Democracy spread through:
- Southern Europe and Latin America
- Eastern Europe and Asia
- Africa
- Number electoral democracies grew from roughly 1/4 to nearly 2/3 of all countries.