GOVT1107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Larry Diamond, Protestantism, Southeast Asia
26 Jul 2018
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Week 4: democracy and dictatorship i: competing approaches (aug. 17) Samuel huntington, democracy"s third wave, in larry diamond and marc plattner, eds. , the global. Resurgence of democracy (baltimore: johns hopkins university press, 1996), pp. Grey myre, nelson mandela, robert mugabe and the countries they shaped, national public radio (npr), july 28, 2013, pp. Ashutosh varshney, india defies the odds: why democracy survives, journal of democracy 9, no. Samuel p. huntington, political order in changing societies (new haven: yale university press, 1969). Robert a. dahl, polyarchy: participation and opposition (new haven: yale university press, 1971), pp. The dev of a political system that allows for opposition, rivalry, or competition between a government and its opponents is an important aspect of democratisation. Democratisation and dev of public opposition are no identical. Characteristics of democracy: continuing responsiveness of the government to the preferences of its citizens, considered as political equals- quality of being completely or almost completely responsive to all its citizens.
