The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late 20th Centuryvolume 4

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0806125160 ISBN13: 9780806125169 Release Date: March 1993 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press Length: 384 Pages Weight: 1.00 lbs. Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.2" 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. 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 possibility of more countries becoming democratic. The recent transitions, he argues, are the third major wave of democratization in the modem world. Each of the two previous waves was followed by a reverse wave in which some countries shifted back to authoritarian government. Using concrete examp