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Populist Latin American Country's Political Modernization Process

Posted on:2012-01-05Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X X ZhaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2206330332490524Subject:Foreign political system
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Populism is a kind of political thought and strategy or social movement,it occurs in the countries or regions that are in the economic transformation or in the political transition.It advocates direct democracy and opposes indirect democracy and may process to authoritarianism in its development.its formation is relevant to the design of the elite class.Political modernization is the social modernization that reflects in the aspect of politics or political fields,it refers to the entire process of transformation from the traditional political system to modern political system . Political modernization is with the modernization of society,namely it completes the transformation from undeveloped politics to developed politics in the history of social transformation from undeveloped society to developed society.Populism got better development and application In Latin America,So this article mainly discusses the Latin American populism and the modernization of Latin American countries,then analyze the role that populism plays in the Latin American political modernization,we can get some enlightenment and provide certain reference for the modernization of other countries and regions.The logical framework of the article is from the abstract to the concrete,from the theory to the practice,then inducting and summarising the practice,drawing a final conclusion.The emphasis of the article is the part of defining conception in the second chapter and the induction,analysis and conclusion in the fifth chapter.The first chapter is the introductory part.Mainly to interpret the significance of study,the situation and trend of study in academe,method and innovation of the study.The second chapter is the defining conception on the populism and political modernization . There is no unitive definition on the populism and political modernization in the theory horizon.The article make analysis,induction and conclusion on the base of the predecessors'technical opinions,and draw a conclusion of a main connotation that populism is a kind of political thought and strategy or social movement,it occurs in the countries or regions that are in the economic transformation or in the political transition.It advocates direct democracy and opposes indirect democracy and may process to authoritarianism in its development.its formation is relevant to the design of the elite class.And make comparative analysis about populism and authoritarianism,democratic politics, elitism.Political modernization is the social modernization that reflects in the aspect of politics or political fields,it refers to the entire process of transformation from the traditional political system to modern political system.Political modernization is with the modernization of society , namely it completes the transformation from undeveloped politics to developed politics in the history of social transformation from undeveloped society to developed society.And discuss the measure index and model of political modernization.The third chapter mainly introduces The development process of populism of Latin America.From the rise of populism in Latin America,To three development stages of the populism of Latin America:the early populism stage,the classic populism stage,the new populism stage.Finally discuss the characteristics of populism of Latin America.The fourth chapter mainly introduces the process of political modernization of Latin America,First introducing several more important countries in Latin America,and focusing on the analysis of political development processes and their political powers of Argentina,Brazil and Mexico.finally reviewing political situation of Latin America.The fifth chapter is function analysis of populism to the political modernization of Latin America,including two aspects:positive role and negative role.This is one of the article's focus.Mainly analysis of the role that populism how play in Latin American political transformation. The sixth chapter is enlightenment that populistm gives for political modernization of other countries and regions.Mainly should standard populism,and using the strengths of populistm,abandon its defects.
Keywords/Search Tags:populistm, Political modernization, Latin America
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