POLI 212 Lecture Notes - Liberal Democracy, Limited Government, Authoritarianism
24 Apr 2013
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Notes on velerie bunce"s the historical origins of the east-west divide: civil society, political society, and democracy in europe Will europe be unified soon? reasons for doubt. Flourishing of liberal politics and capitalist economies after wwi gave way to increasingly protected economies, rise of alliances, growing political radicalism, and rise of fascism during interwar period, culminating in wwii. After wwii, long peace makes europeans hopefully, but there were periods of long peace in. Europe before, and only the europeans who didn"t face conflict were hopeful. Focus of essay: look at core-periphery distinction in europe by looking at east vs. west during the cold war era. Analysis will focus on 4 time frames: differences between eastern and western developmental trajectories from roman times. West: political society grew out of civil society. East: political society arose later and response to oppressive states and western ideas because of this, democracy had little grounding and was fatally flawed
