Final Exam Winter Flashcards
NIC’s
- newly industrialized/industrializing countries
- found in east Asia and latin america
- characterized by rapid economic growth, technological advancement
LDC’s
- less developed countries
- economic growth has been slow
- less than great social services
development theory
- state led neo marxist appraoch
- underdevelopment was formed from exploitation in international trade
- to combat this theory, must de-link from the global economy
modernization theory
- assumption that technologies and expertise will help develop countries advance and become like the west
- must abandon traditional ways of thinking of and become more modern, universalistic
SAP’s
- structural adjustment programs
- restructuring developing countries economies by implementing free market principles
- trade liberalization, cutback on social funding, privatization, export promotion, deregulation
Mass Media
- fourth estate
- watch dog, advances democracy and limits government power
iron rice bowl
-during the Mao era, iron rice bowl was the promise of security of healthcare, work, and retirement
great leap forward
- 1958 during Mao era in which sought to catch up to western industrilization by growing economy 20 years a day
- agriculture comunes
- state owned lands, property, companies
- central planning
- favoured state industry over consumer goods
chines unstainable develpment
- overproduction
- environment damage
- resource loss
- job uncertainty, unemployment, labour mobility
resource curse
-too much resources in Nigeria in which undemocratic control occurs buying off stakeholders, and paying for repression of others
ISI
- import substitution industrialization
- occurs in LDC’s part of the dependency theory in which unplugging from international economy
- creating own indepent economy
corruption
- impedement to stability in Nigeria,
- oil remains in the grip of gvoernment in which money is laundered and stolen
RDP
-reconstruciton development program aimed at fixing social issues
GEAR
- RDP was not effective without economic growth
- growth empolyment and redistrubution SAP
Confucius
-early ideology of China that emphazis hiearchy, and roles in the economy
new socialist man
- Mao era promoting class struggle
- collectivilism
- everyone must play their part
- individual reforma and self criticism
nationalism
- high nationalism in China from battling Japan
- low nationalism in Nigeria but proud of their own nations
reform movement
- begining in Tiananment square
- CPP no long has monopoly of ideas
- from discrugnteled workers and minorities
chinese social media
-
regional/reglious quarells
- christian of the south, muslisms of the north’
- civilian rule reulsted in the implemntation of sharia law
ideologic parties
-parties in nigeria often represent ethniciites and arguing democracy only increases ehtnic struggles
racist authoritarianism
-south africa
TRC
- truth and reconicilation commionsion
- unvocvering truths of all crimes and laying foundaiton for healthing
countervailing sources of stability
- southafrican democracy suprsingly stable
- capacity to avoid conflict in face of economic and soical prolems
- collective decision making and ANC pragmatism
countervailing sources of stability
- southafrican democracy suprsingly stable
- capacity to avoid conflict in face of economic and soical prolems
- collective decision making and ANC pragmatism
roles of military
- defend border from exterior, foreign threats
- defend internal threats to stability
