[Wondergirl]

Democratization is a transition from some system [give examples?] to a more democratic one.

[sandyforever]

But, I think I still need to understand how democratization should not be imposed.

[Wondergirl]

Does that have to be said in the first sentence? If so, it can be said as an appositive to "democratization."

[Wondergirl]

Democratization, the transition to a more democratic political regime, [should not be imposed -- to be said in your words].

[sandyforever]

OK so what types of proofs should I use?

[Wondergirl]

ok so what types of proofs should I use?

You mean examples? Well, think about the world during the past 20 years (or longer). Think about countries which are now democratic and what they were before that.

[sandyforever]

I was going to use the example of France during the sixteenth century and eighteenth century and relate it to modern day Iraq. But I am not completely positive if I should use it. This is what I read on it.
France's history from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries demonstrates how institutions fail when they prove unable to manage conflicts or adapt to pressures. Religious disputes from the Reformation, social and economic changes, and external military pressures challenged regimes across Europe. France under Cardinal Richelieu and Louis XIV responded by developing a centralized royal bureaucracy to mobilize resources and concentrate authority. War had already expanded the responsibilities of royal officials France at the expense of both local institutions and the old military classes, while failure of the Fronde revolt in the 1750s left no alternate authority. Absolutism met challenges that had undermined the older partnership between rulers and social estates, and it worked well enough to provide an appealing model of rational, efficient royal governance that other European rulers copied. Representative government seemed backward and an impediment to progress when measured against the modernizing efforts to absolutist regimes. The fragility of the absolutist state only became apparent as financial crises and forceful popular resistance to state policy emerged during the 1780s.

Financial crisis undermined absolutism in France, but the relationship between public opinion and the state played a crucial role in the government capacity to mobilize resources. French rulers declined to call an Estates General between 1614 and 1789 because such assemblies inevitably led to trouble. While some provincial estates and judicial parlements advised the crown and occasionally acted as a venue for expressing public opinion, these bodies' narrow focus limited their impact. Public opinion thus emerged as a political category in France from the gap created when representative institutions failed to provide an outlet of criticism and discontent. It acted as an abstract category of authority invoked to give positions the legitimacy that an absolutist political order could not provide. Because only the king could legitimately decide questions on behalf of the community, absolutism precluded a public politics beyond the court. The notion of government as private royal business made unauthorized discussion illegal, but the French crown failed to stop debate, and political contestation forced the government to argue its own case. If French rulers minded public opinion for lack of an alternative, they failed to give it a stabilizing institutional role. Political culture in eighteenth-century France and other absolutist states therefore tended towards polarization. Disengaged from practical concerns and lacking a political role, public opinion under absolutism fostered a culture of critique that turned on society itself.

[Wondergirl]

I think you need modern examples -- and there should be plenty. This was on Yahoo!Answers four years ago (so some changes) --

Albania: Emerging democracy
Andorra: Parliamentary democracy
Angola: Multiparty republic
Argentina: Multiparty republic
Armenia: Multiparty republic
Aruba: Parliamentary democracy
Australia: Democratic Constitutional Monarchy
Austria: Federal republic
The Bahamas: Parliamentary Representative Democratic Monarchy
Bangladesh: Parliamentary democracy
Barbados: Parliamentary democracy
Belgium: Parliamentary democracy under a constitunional monarchy
Belize: Parliamentary democracy
Benin: Multiparty republic
Bermuda: Parliamentary British overseas territory with internal self-government
Bolivia: Multiparty republic
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Emerging republic
Botswana: Parliamentary republic
Brazil: Federative Republic
Bulgaria: Parliamentary democracy
Burkina Faso: Parliamentary democracy
Canada: Parliamentary democracy
Cambodia: Multiparty democracy under a constitutional monarchy
Cape Verde: Multiparty republic
Chile: Multiparty republic
Colombia: Multiparty republic
Comoros: Multiparty republic
Cook Islands: Self-governing parliamentary democracy
Costa Rica: Democratic republic
Croatia: Presidantial/Parliamental democracy
Cyprus: Multiparty republic
The Czech Republic: Parliamentary democracy
Denmark: Parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy
Dominica: Parliamentary democracy
Dominican: Republic Democracy
Ecuador: Multiparty republic
El Salvador: Multiparty republic
Estonia: Parliamentary republic
Fiji: Multiparty republic
Finland: Multiparty republic
Gabon: Multiparty republic
France: Multiparty republic
Georgia: Multiparty republic
Germany: Multiparty republic
Ghana: Constitutional democracy
Greece: Parliamentary republic
Greenland: Parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy
Grenada: Parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy
Guatemala: Democratic republic
Guinea-Bissau: Multiparty republic
Guyana: Multiparty republic
Honduras: Democratic republic
Hungary: Parliamentary democracy
Iceland: Democracy
India: Federal Republic
Indonesia: Multiparty Republic
Ireland: Multiparty republic
Israel: Parliamentary democracy
Isle of Man: Parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy
Italy: Multiparty republic
Jamaica: Parliamentary democracy
Japan: Parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy
Kiribati: Multiparty republic
Kyrgyzstan: Multiparty republic
Latvia: Democracy
Lebanon: Multiparty republic
Lesotho: Parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy
Liberia: Emerging democracy
Liechtenstein: Parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy
Luxembourg: Parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy
Lithuania: Parliamentary democracy
Macedonia: Parliamentary democracy
Malawi: Parliamentary democracy
Malta: Multiparty republic
Marshall Islands: Constitutional government
Mauritius: Parliamentary democracy
Mexico: Federal Republic
Micronesia: Constitutional government
Moldova: Multiparty republic
Monaco: Parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy
Mongolia: Mixed parliamentary/presidential
Mozambique: Multiparty republic
Namibia: Multiparty republic
Nauru: Multiparty republic
New Zealand: Democratic Constitutional Monarchy
The Netherlands: Parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy
The Netherlands Antilles: Parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy
Nicaragua: Multiparty republic
Niue: Self governing parliamentary democracy
Northern Mariana Islands: Self-governing with locally elected governor, lieutenant governor and legislature
Norway: Parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy
Palau: Constitutional government in free association with the U.S.A.
Panama: Democracy
Papua: New Guinea Parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy
Paraguay: Multiparty republic
Peru: Multiparty republic
The Philippines: Multiparty republic
Poland: Multiparty republic
Portugal: Democracy
Puerto Rico: Democracy
Romania: Multiparty republic
Saint Kitts and Nevis: Parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy
Saint Lucia: Parliamentary democracy
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Parliamentary democracy
Samoa: Parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy
San Marino: Multiparty republic
São Tomé and Príncipe: Multiparty republic
Senegal: Multiparty republic
Serbia and Montenegro: Multiparty republic
Seychelles: Multiparty republic
Sierra Leone: Constitutional democracy
Slovakia: Parliamentary democracy
Slovenia: Parliamentary republic
Solomon Islands: Parliamentary democracy
South Africa: Multiparty republic
South Korea: Multiparty republic
Spain: Parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy
Sri Lanka: Multiparty republic
Suriname: Democracy
Sweden: Parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy
Switzerland: Multiparty republic/Direct democracy
Republic of China (Taiwan): Democracy
Thailand: Parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy
Trinidad and Tobago: Parliamentary democracy
Tuvalu: Parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy
Turkey: Parliamentary democracy
Ukraine: Multiparty republic
United Kingdom: Parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy
United States of America: Federal republic
Uruguay: Multiparty republic
Vanuatu: Parliamentary republic
Venezuela: Multiparty republic

Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dem…

[sandyforever]

So how can I relate them. It is reallly confusing me and I have no idea how to write this paragraph

[Wondergirl]

How long does this paragraph/section have to be?

[Wondergirl]

I personally would use Albania* and Iraq -- and maybe Afghanistan -- for the democratization section.

* from Wikipedia:

Enver Hoxha, who ruled Albania for four decades, died on 11 April 1985. Eventually the new regime introduced some liberalization, and granting the freedom to travel abroad in 1990. The new government made efforts to improve ties with the outside world. The elections of March 1991 left the former Communists in power, but a general strike and urban opposition led to the formation of a coalition cabinet that included non-Communists.

Albania's former Communists were routed in elections March 1992, causing economic collapse and social unrest. Sali Berisha was elected as the first non-Communist president since World War II. The next crisis occurred in 1997, during his presidency, as riots ravaged the country because of collapse of pyramid schemes. The state institutions collapsed and an EU military mission led by Italy was sent to stabilize the country. In summer 1997, Berisha was defeated in elections, winning just 25 seats out of a total of 156. His return to power in the elections of 3 July 2005 ended eight years of Socialist Party rule. In 2009, Albania – along with Croatia – joined NATO.

[sandyforever]

The paragraph at least a page

[sandyforever]

A page double spaced

[sandyforever]

But how could I relate this example with forcing democracy is wrong. BTW I have some family members that are from Albania so its funny that you brought it up.

[Wondergirl]

Maybe cite Albania as a gently evolving example, the more preferred. Or just use Iraq and/or Afghanistan. You really don't have much space to use Albania and get into the gentle stuff, plus I guess it doesn't work with the "forcing."

[sandyforever]

I don't know what to write it on and I don't have much time to research it I have to hand it in by 8:00 this is the only thing that is screwing me over. :(

[Wondergirl]

I dont know what to write it on and I dont have much time to research it I have to hand it in by 8:00 this is the only thing that is screwing me over. :(

Both of those countries are run by tribal chiefs who mostly hate each other. Discuss that. Skirmishes are not unusual, the economy is based on the importing of oil and poppies, everyone grabs for what he can get, and no one shares. Poverty and poor education for males only are rampant. The two countries are basically theocracies.