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26 de jul. de 2022 · Huntington examines the causes, processes, and prospects of democratization since 1974, years during which more than 30 countries abandoned authoritarian rule.
Overall, Huntington’s book concludes that the movement towards democracy during this wave was a global one. The ‘third wave of democratization’ moved across southern Europe, sweeping through Latin America, moving on to large parts of Asia and decimating the dictatorship in the Soviet Empire.
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1 de jan. de 1993 · In The Third Wave, Samuel P. Huntington analyzes the causes and nature of these democratic transitions, evaluates the prospects for stability of the new democracies, and explores the...
The current era of democratic transitions constitutes the third wave of democratization in the history of the modern world. The first "'long" wave of democratization began in the 1820s, with the widening of the suffrage to a large proportion of the male population in the United
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Between 1974 and 1990 more than thirty countries in southern Europe, Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe shifted from authoritarian to democratic systems of government. This global democratic revolution is probably the most important political trend in the late twentieth century.
The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century, (University of Oklahoma Press, 1991). 2 Lipset, S. M. ‘Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy’, The American Political Science Review, Vol. 53, No. 1, 1959, p. 75
As the wave swept through Eastern Europe, African leaders began to see ’the winds of change’ and subsequently redrafted their constitutions to allow for multiparty elections, fearing that any resistance to reforms would lead to an emboldened opposition.
