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The Third Wave by Samuel Huntington

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has called this massive exodus, The Third Wave. In a book by the same name, he shows how though these countries have elected to try democracy, that they are far  from enjoying the benefits of a stable government as of yet. Also, his book can be said to be one of the most definitive studies of this phenomenon to date.  Since the early seventies Mr. Huntington states that nearly sixty countries have experienced democratic transitions (Huntington, 20). Mainly, the student would wish  to state, Mr. Huntington tends to focus his analysis on the countries in Asia and Latin America and why there has been such a rash of political realignment. His  term, the third wave, refers to two other previously recognized time periods in which there was such upheaval. The first wave, he  states, occurred early in the eighteen hundreds and lasted until the early nineteen hundreds. It is generally defined by the extension of the right to vote to a large segment  of the male population in the United States. This growth continued until World War Two occurred and Mussolini, along with Hitler, managed to reverse many of the previously democratically governed  countries. The second wave, the student should list, as defined by Huntington, began with the ending of World War Two and lasted  until the early to mid-seventies. Huntington defines these waves as "...a group of transitions from non-democratic to democratic regimes that occur within a specified period of time and that significantly  outnumber transitions in the opposite direction during that period"(Huntington, 15). This second wave ended when the addition of new democracies began to wane due to newly formed democracies failing to