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The Delusion of Waves of Democratization

The Delusion of Waves of Democratization. By Anna, Ike, Jamal, Zerul. The Delusion. Huntington’s claims. Democracy is growing through waves of increasing and decreasing democratization. There are eras that have sustained increase or decrease in democratic nations. There have been 3 waves.

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The Delusion of Waves of Democratization

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  1. The Delusion of Waves of Democratization By Anna, Ike, Jamal, Zerul

  2. The Delusion

  3. Huntington’s claims • Democracy is growing through waves of increasing and decreasing democratization. • There are eras that have sustained increase or decrease in democratic nations. • There have been 3 waves.

  4. Polity IV • Measure of democracy for independent states • Fourth Version • Polity Scores [ -10,10 ] • [-10, -6] : Autocracies • [-5, 5] : Anocracies • [ 6, 10] : Democracies

  5. The Facts

  6. Transition from one to another

  7. Fitting together but democracy always increases

  8. The Truth • Democracies are increasing in number, not going in waves. • The variation of democracies continually dips and grows in a sporadic fashion. • While there are increases and decreases in democratic nations they cannot be classified as defined waves; simply small fluctuations.

  9. Do you see the reversal wave from 1958-1975?

  10. Just NO.

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