The economic development in Taiwan and China between the 1980s and 1990s steps up the sequence of events that leads to either the rise of democracy in one country or the survival of the one party system based on the wealth of everyone. In this paper, I will argue that between the 1980s and 1990s in Taiwan, there was economic development that leads to the rise of fluid democracy based on the power theory while in China during the same time period, the rise in economic development doesn’t lead to the rise of democracy and how the modernization theory doesn’t work with the country of China. The outcome within Taiwan was that between the 1980s and 1990s the prosperous economic development in the country had changed the power struggle between
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These three authors describe how economic development leads to democracy by drawing on how the rise of industrialization within a country called the power theory. What Rueschemeyer, Huber, and Stephens is trying to express is that this change of industrialization that brings economic development leads to the weakened power of the landlords and strengthens the power of the subordinate class which turns the wheels of society towards democracy because wealth does not cause any form of democracy (RHS, 75). The general theory on how the economic development within a country does not lead to the rise of democracy and this idea is explained by the author Larry Diamond. Diamond explains the modernization theory where economic development does not lead to democracy because wealth within a society causes democracy which brings Diamond to the idea that a society would only change to democracy when people change their values and believes that solving a countries problem with the government is the right path for democracy while changing the economy would not encourage democracy within a one party system country (Diamond, 452). These two theories are explaining that when the cost of repression is high and the cost of toleration is low in a country, this leads to rising democracy. The variation of how democracy is or is not caused by the economic development …show more content…
The reasons that the economic devolvement in China did not cause the rise of democracy was because the modernization theory doesn’t completely work for this country where the power of the CCP had over the citizens of the country which is seen through the elite becoming rich during the 1980s and 1990s and the social divide between the high and low economic statues would lead to democracy, but in China there was attempted economic reforms brought up from the bureaucrats in China which lead to the popular support of the CCP in China(Walder, 471). In China, the cost of toleration was high and the cost of repression was low, but this did not cause democracy to form because the CCP had used economic reforms to bring popular support to the party. The country was almost democratic, but the CCP was too stable to a party to
These three authors describe how economic development leads to democracy by drawing on how the rise of industrialization within a country called the power theory. What Rueschemeyer, Huber, and Stephens is trying to express is that this change of industrialization that brings economic development leads to the weakened power of the landlords and strengthens the power of the subordinate class which turns the wheels of society towards democracy because wealth does not cause any form of democracy (RHS, 75). The general theory on how the economic development within a country does not lead to the rise of democracy and this idea is explained by the author Larry Diamond. Diamond explains the modernization theory where economic development does not lead to democracy because wealth within a society causes democracy which brings Diamond to the idea that a society would only change to democracy when people change their values and believes that solving a countries problem with the government is the right path for democracy while changing the economy would not encourage democracy within a one party system country (Diamond, 452). These two theories are explaining that when the cost of repression is high and the cost of toleration is low in a country, this leads to rising democracy. The variation of how democracy is or is not caused by the economic development …show more content…
The reasons that the economic devolvement in China did not cause the rise of democracy was because the modernization theory doesn’t completely work for this country where the power of the CCP had over the citizens of the country which is seen through the elite becoming rich during the 1980s and 1990s and the social divide between the high and low economic statues would lead to democracy, but in China there was attempted economic reforms brought up from the bureaucrats in China which lead to the popular support of the CCP in China(Walder, 471). In China, the cost of toleration was high and the cost of repression was low, but this did not cause democracy to form because the CCP had used economic reforms to bring popular support to the party. The country was almost democratic, but the CCP was too stable to a party to