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March 1, 2005
Trend Towards Democracy
Yesterday I had my first real Prospects for Democracy class. It was interesting only in the fact that he gave us reading that completely contradicted his personal research and beliefs. Normally, I would be impressed that he was willing to introduce conflicting ideas but he didn't seem to understand that they conflicted.
Basically, the reading was claiming that liberalized Autocracies, like the one here in Jordan, are the governments least likely to embrace democracy because they can appease the people while still maintaining ultimate control. This means, that altough it looks like Jordan, Egypt, and Morroco are moving toward free democracy, they are actually gaining more control and moving away from freedom. The article cites examples from Jordan in the late 90's when there was a crackdown on freedom of the press. Although the article was a little out of date, it did have a point.
My Prof's research, however, claims that there is actually a liberalizing trend in the Middle East. It found that most Arabs want democracy and are more open to a secular government than we westerners would expect. He claimed that liberalized autocracies will not last and even went so far as to say that if they last 10 more years he would be surprised.
While both arguments have their point, I was not quite satisfied with either of them. In order for Democracies to work, the process must satisfy the people. This seems like it would be easy, but satisfaction is hard to acheive in Democracy. Even in America, there are millions of people disatisfied with their government. American's, however, respect the process enough to stand behind any government that elected by the people. The Middle East, however, does not have the same history and there will be a long struggle trying to satisfy the voters.
Posted by rcollins at March 1, 2005 7:36 AM
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