Democratization Theories Developed by Moore, Rueschemeyer, and Collier.

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Democracy defined by Britannica's on-line Encyclopedia is a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections Democratization is the process that it takes to reach democracy. We have made a lot of improvements and obtained and maintained some form of democracy. But From the readings and lectures, I have concluded that we are still …

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…again. Until the social, economic, and political, gap is closed we will always be in search for true democratization. References: 1.Barrington Moore, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Landlord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World, Beacon Press 1966. 2.D. Rueschemeyer, Stephens and Stephens, Capitalist Development and Democracy, University of Chicago Press, 1992. 3.Ruth Collier, Paths Toward Democracy: The Working Class and Elite in Western Europe and South America, Cambridge University Press, 1999. 4.www.britannica.com