Transition to democracy in Latin America, case study of Mexico.
Michael Sowa POLITSC 4140 Bog Post -2 09/25/16 Democracy has become a worldwide political system in which majority of the inhabitants of contemporary world want their state’s political authorities to adopt. Democracy is therefore seen as a solution to modern…
Insurgents and the path to democracy.
The readings this week were very interesting in talking about the paths of democracy. Especially in Woods reading talking about the “insurgent path of democracy”. Economic elites in Latin America were at first reluctant to democratization. They were able to…
Week 6: Transitions to Democracy in the Post-Cold War Era
This week’s readings focused on transitions to democracy in Latin America in the post-Cold War Era. The authors of each piece analyze these transitions to democracy during this specific time period through interesting perspectives. Mainwaring and Perez-Linan argue that while many…
Democracy Put to the Test: The Unique Situation of the Colombian Political System
This week’s readings were centered on the relatively recent wave of democratization in Latin America that has occurred since the 1990s. Manwairing explained how this wave of democratization was extremely unique and went against many theoretical models of how democratization…
The Value of Liberty: Transitions to Democracy in a Post-Cold War World
When Americans turned on their televisions on the 9th of November, 1989 and watched the collapse of the Berlin Wall many correctly saw that a new era in world politics was about to begin. The world watched as Germans ripped…
Democratic Stagnation Post Cold War
The period of democratization in Latin America between 1992 and 2003 post Cold War was a very unique time of transition. Unlike the Cold War era, this period was not marked by multitudes of military coups that lead to authoritarian…
Week 6: Transistions to Democracy in the Post-Cold War Era
This coming week we will be discussing the rise and eventual stagnation of democracy in Latin America. “Latin American Democratization since 1978” by Scott Mainwaring and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán in particular discusses the significant increase of democratic and semi-democratic Latin American…
Transitions to Democracy in the Post-Cold War Era
Post 1978 democratization presents different theories than we learned in week 5 with respect to pre-cold war era. I found these readings more interesting because the theories were much more complex, which I think more appropriate when explaining many countries at once….
Week 5: Transitions to Democracy-From Authoritarianism
The transitions to democracy from authoritarianism marked an interesting time period for Latin America. This week’s readings do quite an effective job in analyzing different aspects of these transitions. O’Donnell and Schmitter make very interesting arguments in their piece on…
Transition To Democracy
The readings this week focus mainly on the transition of authoritarian regimes into democratic states. The way some scholars viewed the rise of democracy was through the scope of declining military influence in Latin American states. Karl’s definition of democracy…