troduction: The study will be using the Why Nations Fail thesis as its main theory to justify the weak relationship between democracy and economic growth in Sub Saharan Africa, where the gap between the poor and the rich continuous to increase. The maintenance of multi party democracy in Sub Saharan Africa relies on the ability of states to maintain a strong economic and social welfare of their citizens. Also, the Modernization theory and the World system theory will be also be used to analysis certain inequalities between the West and Developing Countries. The chapter will also introduce the research methodology that the researcher will be using to analyze the basis of the research.
3.2: Theories
3.2.1: Why Nation Fail Theory
In “Why Nations
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Thus, Sub Saharan African states need to be inclusive for economic growth to occur consistently. It is a truism that most politicians controlling power in Sub Saharan Africa enrich themselves and use their massive wealth to build personalized security forces that will be loyal to them and help them to remain in power . A good example is president Biya of Cameroon who has been in power for more than 33 …show more content…
Modernization has been seen as a spring board guiding rapid development . The impetus of articulating this theory here is to manifest a theoretical correlation existing between wealth and democratic development. Modernization consists of a gradual differentiation and the specialization of social structures that culminates in a separation of political structures from other structures, and with the effect of making democracy possible . Thus, Przeworski and Limongi conclude that democracies are likely to die in poor countries and certain to survive in wealthy ones, once they are established
In his book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Jared Diamond describes the experiences of seafaring Vikings and Polynesians. In each case, Diamond alludes to the fact that people’s biases – both ancient and modern – have clouded our understanding of these two groups. In this paper, I will demonstrate how bias can affect understandings – both past and present – of Vikings and Polynesians. I will do this by briefly describing some of those biases, as recounted by Diamond. I will then utilize documents from chapter 6 of Merry Wiesner’s text, Discovering the Global Past, to show examples of how bias has clouded our interpretations of Vikings and Polynesians.
Building a nation from scratch to the point where it is able to sustain itself in terms of governance, trade and many other aspects that make up a nation requires a lot struggle. The United States of America, which is currently considered the superpower of all the nations of the world, is not an exception. In fact, it can be used as a perfect example to explain the struggle that many countries have gone through to achieve their current status. It has gone through war to gain their independence from the colonial rule, and they have also fought different wars after that. Among them is the war of 1812 of which many have termed as the second war of independence.
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In the article “What if the Secret to Success is Failure?” By Paul Tough, Tough wrote an article about educators, psychologist, and sociologist doing research and experiments on if character is important to the success of students. Randolph, who is 49, is the administrator of a competitive school and is leading the charge on if character is really important piece on helping students get better in school. First Randolph experimented with using character report cards that students would be tested on and that teachers would personally grade the student(self-evaluation). Then Randolph would see what was more important, Moral or Character?
In addition, regardless of the turmoil felt in the beginning of democratic revolutions, democracies lend way to more peaceful periods for their is a defined succession of power that is difficult to challenge. From the U.S. inauguration of 1801, this country is a paragon of something “fundamental to any healthy democracy: a peaceful transition of power”(Laskowski). Additionally, in the analysis of the economic benefits, “the top 25 richest countries in the world (as ranked by the World Bank) are also fully established democracies,” often due to free-market system of capitalism where companies and individuals can trade without government
Author point out African is developing, but the policy of African is only benefit the upper class which means everything can be control by money. Also, van S. Lieberman, Princeton University claim that wealth, power, and democracy always connected although we try to separate it. Money can affect and control the society by corruption. In the USA, all political party get financial support by consortium. Base on it, a lot policies is to benefit a financial group.
Cultural collisions can have a negative or positive effect on people. Trying to change such a big part of you and the way you have always lived can be very hard on people. Others will choose to embrace it. Nwoye’s sense of identity was challenged with the introduction of Western ideas into the Ibo culture. Nwoye started out the novel sensitive and confused, but the cultural collision of the British colonists and Ibo people affected Nwoye, positively to the point of changing cultures and leaving his clan.
This effect, however, does not end there, and the wish to ensure means of living goes on to include the blind pursuit of comforts - the acquirement of which, according to Tocqueville, “haunts the imagination of the poor,” while the rich “dread of losing them” (245). Not so in societies with hereditary wealth, where the rich and poor alike remain in the conditions in which they are born and therefore are accustomed to it. They do not pursue comforts as a goal, but simply accept the presence of them (or lack thereof) as a way of living (244). The democratic American character, however, is more uniquely influenced by equality and the circulation of wealth. All inhabitants can taste of the comforts of the world, and then, in the pursuit of more, “shut out the rest of the world” until the chase “absorbs them wholly …
Economic inequality effects democracy because the wealthy can give money to politicians, while the majority of us will have a difficult time financing campaigns. Another way economic inequality effects when it comes to democracy are because the wealthy are most likely to vote since they are better educated. Most of the wealthy political interests do not focus on economic inequality because they do not find it a problem. The wealthy focus on other ideas rather than the right to a political equality since they have greater influence over political
Among our closest counterparts are Russia with its oligarchs and Iran. While many of the old centers of inequality in Latin America, such as Brazil, have been striving in recent years, rather successfully, to improve the plight of the poor and reduce gaps in income, America has allowed inequality to grow.” (Stiglitz 2011) Inequality doesn’t give anyone an equal
The first government of the united states was based on the articles of confederation and that was eventually adopted during the revolutionary war. The major flaw of the articles of confederation was the lack of strong national government. Which was the cause of economic disorganization, lack of central leadership, and legislative inefficiencies. The economic disorganization was exposed due to that congress could not regulate trade because of limited power that congress had. Not only did congress have limited power, but also the economic disorganization had no uniform system of currency.
Davidson makes reference to Idi Amin of Uganda as well as Jean-Bédel Bokassa of the Central African Republic, who both are examples of leaders who mirrored the actions of their colonial predecessors. Their rule was similar to that of European colonizers in that they thrived off of the inequality of Africans and took part in lavish celebrations while the majority of their country remained poor. While some believe this corruption is due to some innate greed possessed solely by Africans, a look into history tells you that modern day African rulers have simply just inherited and embraced the lifestyle of the European rules before them, which unfortunately included the massive hoarding of wealth. This hoarding of wealth did not come without any opposition however, which brings about the next theme of dictatorship and how rulers such as Bokassa and Amin maintained their positions of power through the crushing of dissent. The suppression of protests was done through the torture and murder of anyone who criticized, which is exactly how the European colonizers ruled out any opposition and another example of the brutal legacies of
Let’s first look at Mill’s idea of of accruing knowledge for an entire nation. Only then it can be seen that the different mechanisms outlined by different authors have clear benefits and drawbacks depending on the scale and situation in which they are implemented. In Considerations on Representative Democracy Mill claims that representative democracy is the best form of government. Importantly,
Globalization and Nation States Globalization has integrated and intertwined the economies of the world. In the world today, every nation has become independent on every other nation, be it through trade or through finance. Developing countries today are attracting large rounds of foreign investment, and this foreign investment is coming from the developed countries. Thus, the money of the developed countries is today invested in the developing countries.
Low productivity and 7. Endemic corruption, greed. Given the Nigeria’s socio economic and political disposition Globalization presented more challenges for the country for it lacks what is needed to be relevant and deal with it untill the nation can achieve a certain measure of good governance, modest economic