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The first, lasting from 1826 to 1926, accompanied the expansion of suffrage, principally in western Europe and the United States. The collapse of many European democracies after World War I marked the first reverse wave, lasting from 1922 to 1942.
Demokratizatsiya (Russian: демократизация, IPA: [dʲɪməkrətʲɪˈzatsɨjə], democratization) was a slogan introduced by CPSU General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in January 1987 calling for the infusion of "democratic" elements into the Soviet Union's single-party government.
The concepts (and name) of democracy and constitution as a form of government originated in ancient Athens circa 508 BCE.
The first wave of democracy (1828–1926) began in the early 19th century when suffrage was granted to the majority of white males in the United States ("Jacksonian democracy"). This was followed by France, Britain, Canada, Australia, Italy, and Argentina, and a few others, before 1900.
A so‐called Third Wave of democratization started in the early 1970s. By the year 2000 there were, according to Freedom House, one hundred and twenty democracies in the world, the highest number yet recorded.
Although Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States (1861-1865), popularised democracy as ‘government of the people, by the people and for the people’, the concept has in the course of history come to mean different things to different people.
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Nov 8, 2024 · At the beginning of the 21st century, independent observers agreed that more than one-third of the world’s nominally independent countries possessed democratic institutions comparable to those of the English-speaking countries and the older democracies of continental Europe.
