Research paper:
Your Research Paper should not exceed 5 double-spaced typed pages, excluding endnotes
or bibliography. Refer to a minimum of 6 scholarly academic sources beyond the
class texts. Use relevant books, journals, and government documents. Search the internet
for pertinent scholarly publications. Use the Chicago documentation style.

Essay Topic:
“Democracy is becoming better institutionalized in many of the nations that moved toward
it in the last decade; the next step is the further consolidation and strengthening of
democracy. Democracy may still falter in some countries, but the vast social, economic,
cultural, and political changes that have occurred in most nations in the last thirty years
seem to provide a stronger foundation for democracy now than previously.” (Howard
Wiarda)
Citing examples from two of the following countries: Thailand, Nigeria, Egypt and South
Korea), write a comparative essay on democratization on the basis of the following criteria:
post-independence efforts to entrench democratization, peculiar problems hindering the
democratization process, prospects for democracy in an era of globalization.