How does authoritarianism influence democracy? The ancients feared that in democracy lay a path to autocracy, but today democratization is viewed as autocracy’s remedy. Is democracy a pathway to authoritarianism or is it the antidote? Does one produce the other, or is this an oversimplification? Tip: Discuss with reference to history and the ‘Three Waves’ of democratization.
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