POLI 212 Lecture Notes - Consensus Democracy, Party System, Liberal Democracy

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Liphart"s readings: is interested in democracy regimes. 1980 and the countries have been continuously democratic for that time period- he included 22 countries (but counts france"s 4th republic and france"s 5th republic as two different countries. ) He wants to classify their similarities and differences. He says that liberal democracy has many significant differences within it (majoritarian vs. consensual). He has a causal argument: political regimes reflect qualities of society. Political regimes are adaptations to certain social features. It is a society centred view of how regimes come to be. Liphart"s distinctions between majoritarian and consensus democracy: The basic distinction is that in a majoritarian democracy you concentrate as much power as possible in the hands of the majority, still subject to democratic rules of the game. In a consensus democracy, they want to share and disperse political power as much as possible. He develops a 2x2 typology to classify countries.

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