Introduction
The Global Context of Democratization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11886142 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yoshikazu Sakamoto (International Peace Research Institute Meigaku, Kamikurata 1518, Totsukaku, Yokohama, Japan 244, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 119-128 |
| Publication date | 1991-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Alternatives Global Local Political (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0304-3754 • E-ISSN: 2163-3150 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/030437549101600201 |
| OpenAlex | W2725039025 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
The post-World War II world has been characterized by the establishment of as a universal political norm. Until 1945, even the advanced countries were constantly haunted by political forces openly opposed to democracy. One very elementary and indispensable condition of democracy, universal suffrage, was fulfilled in these countries only as a result of more than a century of popular struggle. Everywhere, the resistance to democratization was overt and persistent. Thanks to popular struggle, however, the twentieth century has since witnessed the emergence of mass democracy. In the developed countries of the West, gained a mass base. But as a result of the crisis and concomitant anomie of capitalist society in the 1920s and 1930s, the mass politics in Germany, Italy, and Japan turned into the reverse of democracy, namely Nazism, fascism, and militarism, which openly promoted antidemocratic values and structures within society. These systems, based on the denial of the principle of equality between human beings, nevertheless resorted to a total mobilization of the masses and to pseudo-mass participation. The primary need to activate the masses called for a counterideology overtly contradicting democracy. When this ideological conflict receded in 1945, a new East-West ideological confrontation came to the fore. While the West stressed liberty and the East equality, both subscribed to the principle of democracy. In the East, claims to were treated as a source of political legitimacy, as illustrated by the use of such key symbolic terms as people's democracy and democratic centralism. Obviously, the realities of the socialist states were far removed from democracy. Yet socialism, unlike Nazism, while resorting to similar total mass mobilization and pseudo
Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Democracy · Democratization · Political science · Politics · History · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Religion and Society Interactions
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| Citations per year | 0.3 |
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| Citation span | 1993 - 2011 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |