Political Science · Comparative Political Analysis
UGC NET June 2019 Political Science
In Samuel P. Huntington's analysis, India is placed in which one of the 'waves of democratisation'?
AFirst wave
BSecond wave ✓ Correct
CThird wave
DFourth wave
Correct answer: (B) Second wave — Huntington places India in the second wave of democratisation, so that is the answer.
Explanation
★Huntington places India in the second wave of democratisation, so that is the answer.
★Waves of democracy are major surges in the spread of democratic rule.
★The second wave began after the Allied victory in the Second World War.
★It peaked around 1962, with about thirty-six countries turning democratic.
★India, independent in 1947, belongs to this post-war wave.
★Huntington set out the idea in The Third Wave (1991).
★The first wave ran from 1828 to 1926, the second from 1943 to 1962 and the third from 1974.
★The first wave was in the nineteenth century and the third began in the mid-1970s.
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