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An 8 page review of the theories of Fareed Zakaria and Heinz Klug. This paper relies on examples from around the world but places a particular emphasis on South Africa. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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File: AM2_PPSouthAfricaConstitutionalism2.rtf
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He is particularly captivated with the idea of liberal democracy as it relates to economic growth. Zakaria (73) argues that constitutionalism has worked differently in the West than it
has in other regions of the world. Constitutionalism of course is not synonymous with democracy yet both can be associated with positive things like the protection of human and
rule of law ut constitutionalism exists independently of democratic rule. Zakaria argues that areas that are rich in natural resources, oil rich nations in particular, have not traveled the
typical capitalistic progression "from agriculture to industry to high-level services but rather exploited their vast oil or mineral reserves in order to buy modernity" (73). There are of course
exceptions to this rule (namely the United States, Chile, and Malaysia) but in general those people from high resource areas have simply bought their way into the modern technological world.
They have bought the commercial trappings of modernity such as the cars, the buildings, and the electronics and they have also bought the knowledge that it takes to operate
these trappings. Zakaria (73) contends that the people in these countries remain uneducated and unskilled, they exist in a primitive society
within a world where everything works as it does in the modern technological world elsewhere. The difference, however, is that these people are not the operators of that world,
they are only the users. They have imported their operators, their skilled workforce, just as they have imported the technological goods themselves. Zakaria (74) observes that:
"if an educated populace- or at least a literate one- is a prerequisite for democratic and participatory
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