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Sep. 21st, 2014 09:48 pm"Transitology... seems to have taught us less about the causes of democratic transitions than it has about our own predilection to imagine opportunities for manufacturing change we hope to see, even under apparently difficult circumstances.
It is worth revisiting an important but often overlooked point made by Tilly about the importance of timescale to theories of democratisation to help understand why it is so hard to formulate grand theories that can explain and predict not just broad patterns, but also specific events. As Tilly points out, the process of democratisation could occur on the political equivalent of a geological timescale, like the process by which organic matter is transformed into an oil frield; or it could occur on a much shorter (and more familiar) timescale, like the planting and cultivation of a garden; or it could fall somewhere in between. The challenge for scholars of comparative democratisation is that we still do not know which timescale applies."
disparate thoughts:
march 2014-september 2014
from morning light to the final glares of day
It is worth revisiting an important but often overlooked point made by Tilly about the importance of timescale to theories of democratisation to help understand why it is so hard to formulate grand theories that can explain and predict not just broad patterns, but also specific events. As Tilly points out, the process of democratisation could occur on the political equivalent of a geological timescale, like the process by which organic matter is transformed into an oil frield; or it could occur on a much shorter (and more familiar) timescale, like the planting and cultivation of a garden; or it could fall somewhere in between. The challenge for scholars of comparative democratisation is that we still do not know which timescale applies."
disparate thoughts:
- i really hate learning about theories, so it's surprising that ulfelder's description of transitology read like poetry to me. it's always unexpected that between the science and jargonistic tendencies of political scientists, you see a little of yourself in the world... or maybe a little of the world in you.
- the other day i got really sad when i realised that the blueberry cakes and rosemary butter cakes and tarts don't look as towering or magnificent as i used to remember, and that it is all my eyes. and it is made all the more stark when everyone else can see it except you
- sometimes it scares me, how everyone in my life seems to be converging to the same inconstancy, proving me wrong all the time then. i hate that i am always disappointed by the inconsistencies of people, more so when i've thought the contrary to them all along. worst joke in the world.
- with everyone moving to beautiful places, i set forth with this annoying determination on this impertinent task to find the beautiful in this country
march 2014-september 2014
from morning light to the final glares of day
