INTL 190: Democracy in the Developing World

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INTL 190Democracy in the Developing World

• Spring 2012

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THE STATE OF DEMOCRACY OVERVIEW

• Schedule and Assignments
• Synthesis Diamond, Spirit of Democracy, Chapters
  8-11
• Collier and Levitsky, Democracy with Adjectives
• Munck and Verkuilen, Conceptualizing and
  Measuring Democracy ltoptionalgt

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SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY

• Purposeful action struggle, strategy,
  ingenuity, vision, courage, conviction,
  compromise, and choices by human actors politics
  in the best sense of the word.
• Increasingly, democratic values and aspirations
  are becoming universal
• a change of heart
• Question can the whole world become democratic?

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POLITICAL REGIME TYPES

• Electoral democracy free and fair elections
• Liberal democracy democratic elections
  thick dimensions (citizen rights)
• Illiberal democracy elections without all other
  attributes (citizen rights)
• Pseudemocracy ? electoral authoritarian regimes
• Note authoritarianism ? totalitarianism

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