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A 7 page research paper that examines the status of democratic governance in Mexico using the framework formulated by Samuel P. Huntington in his text The Third Wave. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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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.1 The second wave came with the Allied victory with World War II, which ushered in
the de-colonization process of the Third World.2 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."3 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 economic failure; 2. the burgeoning economies of many countries, which have raised living standards... 3. changes in religious institutions which have made them
more prone to oppose governmental authoritarianism... 4. the push to promote human rights and democracy...and 5. the snowballing or demonstration effects, enhanced by new international communications, of democratization in other
countries.4 Huntington also outlines a number of conditions that serve to favor the consolidation of new democracies. These are: 1. the experience of a previous effort at democratization, even
if it failed; 2. a high level of economic development; 3. a favorable international political environment, with outside assistance; 4. early timing of the transition to democracy, relative to a
worldwide wave, indicating that the drive to democracy derived primarily from indigenous rather than outside influences; and 5. experience of a relatively peaceful rather than violent transition.5 The notion
of "third wave needs to be broken up," as the steps toward democratization will be different in both "rhythm and chronology."6 Huntington describes three broad categories of political change: transformation;
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