Democracy And Mexico

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...a practical and valuable framework for evaluating the transition to democracy that occurred in various regions of the world in beginning in the 1970s. Huntington calls this broadly-based international push toward democracy the "third wave." The first wave began with the revolutions that swept the Americas in the early nineteenth century, which ended with the creation of new democracies at the end of World War I. Jarle Simensen. "Democracy and globalization: Nineteen eight-nine and the 'Third Wave.'" Journal of World History 10, no. 2 (1999): 391. The second wave came with the Allied victory with World War II, which ushered in the de-colonization process of the Third World. Ibid. The Third wave started with the fall of dictatorships in Spain and Portugal in the mid 1970s and "culminated in the years immediately after 1989." Ibid.
The framework that Huntington describes identifies five elements that paved the way for the latest transitions to democracy. These are:
1. the deepening legitimacy problems of authoritarian governments unable to cope with military defeat and...

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