'democratization' is a valid and usable word in written English.
You can use it when referring to the process of making something more democratic, or of making decision-making processes more open to participation from more people. For example, "The democratization of the company's hiring process has allowed for a much more diverse and inclusive workforce."
And yet, in the early 21st century, many states had recently democratized or had democratization as their principal compass for the future.
The same point could be made about taking existing democratic institutions as the proper model for democratization.
Relatedly, perhaps the globalization of democratic discourse is ushering in a more ambitious period for democratization.
In the recent few years, however, global democratic debates have taken a turn away from 'models' toward 'values of democratization'.
But it's a growing challenge to retain control as mobility and the democratization of everything (commerce, politics and societies) increases – along with cybercrime and cyber war.
But the skyrocketing test scores of the freshman classes at Harvard, Yale, Stanford and other elite schools in the 1950s and 1960s were not accompanied by socioeconomic democratization...The student bodies of the elite colleges are still drawn overwhelmingly from the upper middle class.
They argue policy makers should encourage both democratization as well as the expansion of "state capacity" in order to escape from the threat growth reversals still pose to Africa's current phase of growth.But perhaps other lessons could be learned from this sort of economic history as well, aside from the importance of good institutions for growth.
As her sister says in the film, "My way of dealing with things is to cry, Hasfat's is to make sure that my mother's death wasn't in vain".Hasfat goes on to start Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND) to help further women in the democratization process.
His measures were directed at the same time toward the democratization of the country and its emancipation from foreign interference.
The increase of dissent from the established churches during this period led to a broader toleration of religious diversity, and the democratization of the religious experience fed the fervour that resulted in the American Revolution.
Alphabets have been viewed by many historians as decisive in the democratization of writing; alphabetic writing could become a possession of ordinary people and yet serve a full range of functions.
