Discuss the spread of democratic government in the last decades of the twentieth century. Why and ...

ANSWER:
Students should understand that there has been a general spread of democracy. Democratic governments have survived where they previously existed in the Americas, and new ones have emerged in Asia and eastern Europe. Democratic governments tend to encourage political moderation. In Africa there have been mixed results, but there was hope of more democratic rule with the election of Nelson Mandela in South Africa in 1994 and the election of Olusegun Obasanjo in Nigeria. The Middle East also has had a mixture of democratic governments as well as autocratic rule and the rise Islamic parties.