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The Importance of External Influences in Building a Democracy
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Jacqueline Delgado POL 212: Intro to Comparative Politics Analytical Essay Assignment November 19, 2002 The Importance of External Influences in Building a Democracy In Democracy in the Third World, Robert Pinkney analyzed circumstances that have been important in the past for building a democracy for current democratic regimes. Pinkney studies seven comparatives and their theories for the cause and effect of democracy and identifies their pros and cons. The most important of these conditions stands in the external influences and foreign participation in building the state as a democracy of a non-democratic country. In his "Conditions Conducive to Democracy" chart Pinkney introduces the condition of external influences being one of these conditions that to a democracy. He defines it as when foreign governments, institutions or individuals supply ideas, offer inducements or apply sanctions. Pinkney states that the sole problem with the idea is that the influence can not be direct but indirect because for democracy to...
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