THE STRUCTURE OF ILLIBERAL DEMOCRACY

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THE STRUCTURE OF ILLIBERAL DEMOCRACY
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ASSIGNMENTS

• Capacity and Performance (5/10)
• Smith, ch. 8, plus Corrales and Levitsky
• Illiberal Democracy (5/17)
• Smith, ch. 10, plus Murillo and Htun
• What Now? (5/24)
• Smith, chs. 11-12 and Epilogue,
• plus Lagos and Domínguez

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THE CONCEPT OF ILLIBERAL DEMOCRACY

• Free and Fair Elections Civil Rights
• Systematic Curtailment of Citizenship and Citizen
  Rights
• Connection to Delegative Democracy

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Elections, Rights, and Political Regimes
Rights and Freedoms
Extensive Liberal Democracy
Partial Traditional Autocracy (Dictablanda) Illiberal Democracy
Minimal Hard-Line Autocracy (Dictadura)
Autocracy Semi-Democracy Democracy
Elections Elections Elections Elections
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• Journalists Killed in Latin America, 1990-1999
• Country___ __ N Killings__
• Colombia 36
• Peru 12
• Mexico 10
• Brazil 8
• Haiti 4
• Argentina 3
• Guatemala 3
• Venezuela 2
• Chile 1
• Dominican
• Republic 1
• Honduras 1
• Paraguay 1
• Total 82

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Table 10-2. Electoral Regimes and Freedom of the
Press, 1990s _________________Regime__________
__________ Press____ Autocracy Semi-Democrac
y Democracy Not Free 1
5 2 Partly Free 1
26 51 Free 0
0 47 Totals 2 31 100
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Political Regimes in 1999 Countries and
Population N Regime
Type___ __Countries__ __Population__ Liberal
Democracy 3 4.4 Illiberal
Democracy 11
60.1 Illiberal Semi-Democracy 5
33.3 Autocracy 1 2.2

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UNDERREPRESENTED GROUPS

• Organized Labor
• Women
• Indigenous Peoples