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Abstract: Catholicism played an important role in bringing about the third wave of democratization. This was due to a long historical rapprochement through which both church and the democratic state came to tolerate the other. The Church then exercised a direct influence upon democratization in many countriesâstrongly in Poland, Lithuania, Spain, the Philippines, and Brazil, but weakly in other places, like Argentina. The Church was most likely to exercise a strong influence when it was differentiated from the stateâin its governance, in its transnational links, in its domestic alliances, and in its identification with national identity.
Daniel Philpott (Thu,) studied this question.