With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the concomitant demise of communism in the twentieth century which shed abroad a spirit of triumphalism through the West, came the euphoric impression that, "history had finally ended with the universal victory of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government". ... O'Neil, 2007 defines it as the exercise of political power through participation, competition and liberty. ... Confucius has it that, in defining the future, there is the need to study the past, and so, in the quest to become an advanced democracy, the postur...

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By defining democratization in the first section, focusing on the two variables- inclusion and governmental accountability- a comparative democratization scale to measure the level of this democratization achieved in the countries being studied will be established. ... All three entered the transition period after the fall of communism and moved towards constitutionalising democracy. ...

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