... , an increasing process of democratization in many parts of the world especially in Africa; Army Generals traded their military fatigues for suits to contest elections as politicians in an unprecedented era of democracy. The word democracy was coined from the Greek words demos, "the people," and kratia, "to rule." In theory, this was rule by the people ... north like the UK, USA, Germany, Canada and others; by and large have relatively high levels of economic development and prosperity. It is no surprise then, that the post- cold war era saw many states democratizing since like a towerin...

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... they were forced to pay heavy taxes to the French regime (Franchini 1988). This sense of nationalism resulted in the French losing their foothold within Cambodia during the Second World War and consequently led to the independence of Cambodia in 1953. The next two decades in some sense were represented by single man dominance in Cambodian politics with king Sihanouk, dictating ... everything and labeling his movement as, "Buddhist Socialism," (CIA Fact book). However, in 1975, with the rise of the communist left, Cambodia experienced an era that, although would only last a mere four yea...

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... shapes of nineteenth-century capitalism "chartered corporations, commercial banks, and other private institutions "presaged the consolidation of a new kind of moneyed aristocracy. And increasingly after the War of 1812, government policy seemed to combine the worst of both old and new, favoring the kinds of centralized, broad constructionist, top-down forms of economic development that many thought ... would aid men of established means while deepening inequalities among whites. Numerous events during and after the misnamed Era of Good Feelings "among them the neo-Federalist rulings of ...

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