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GV100 Week 7 - Education, Economics and Democracy - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Examples: South Korea and Taiwan
      - Former dictatorships turned democracies that industrialized at a fast rate
      - Created an educated and democratically involved middle class
      - Similar arguments could be made on how the smallest GDP per capita countries are also either authoritarian or hybrid regimes
      - Might lead to a correlative conclusion: economic development more likely causes democracy
    - - Examples: Singapore and Qatar
      - Ruled by a one party system
      - Little to no middle class is fighting against them
      - Implies that Modernization Theory is a simple correlation, not causation
- - - - ○ Wealthier and better-educated individuals pressed for reform
      - The less educated were the most open to manipulation and intimidation by the Mugabe regime
- - - - ○ The upper class has more abundant resources, affluence and clientelist ties with political elites, and ear the loss of their wealth form democratization
      - ○ The middle class was willing to support the government for self-interest and private property from too much control from the government
      - The middle class is also capable of fighting back with more education and leisure time to participate in public affairs
  - - - These developments transform class structures, weakening landed upper classes and strengthening the working and middle classes
      - Scholars argue that democracy is most likely to emerge and deep in society with massive industrialization and capitalist development
    - - The middle class won't always support the interests of the working class
      - The upper and middle class will band together if enough of their interests are threatened, leading to them chasing authoritarian alternatives