POLI 227 Lecture Notes - Liberal Democracy, Conscience Vote, Authoritarianism
19 Jul 2012
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From the centre to the periphery, or mixed. Periphery to the centre, mixed- usually goes through multiple stages (hiding, small scale hit and run activities, creating liberated or no-go zones, then shifting to a phase of mobile warfare and larger scale warfare). Four stages: small scale hit and run, creation of liberated zones, mobile warfare, full confrontation. What do revolutionary regimes do one in power? (what are the effects?) Initial seizure of power: country-revolutionary war, external challenges (ex. In the bolshevik revolution, western counties tried to intervene to stop the revolution) Domestic debate: compromise vs. revolutionary transformation (moderate vs. radical). It is easy for the radicals to win this debate immediately after winning. Caution vs. exporting the revolution (radical: maturation of the revolution. In our earlier discussion : competitive multi-party, restricted multi-party (playing field isn"t completely free or fair or the elected body doesn"t have the real power, one/no-party states. Procedural vs. substantive democracy: procedural: regular elections, free vote.
