POLI 322 Lecture Notes - Universal Suffrage, Authoritarianism, Bangladesh Awami League
14 Mar 2014
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Generally: states and classes matter but in actual story she tells, she gives more imp to elected elites and non elected institutions. Formal and substantive democ: formal democ: relative power elected vs. non elected institutions. Jalal gives more imp to popular decisions by elected officials: substantive democ: peoples autonomy from structures of dominanace. Capacity of people to resist and renegotiate power relations with state authorities dominant social groups. Ususal def of dem: universal adult franchise, regular elections, control by popular elected leaders over public decision making rather then bearueacrats or unelected military or other leaders. Some times countries may have social groups have low power while there are good institutions. Basically you need formal democ to get substantive democ. Authoritarianism: jala defines it as organized power embedded in institutional structure of the state. So wherever you have a strong central state with a lot of power you will have some authoritarianism. Overt authoritarianism exists wherever there are centralized states.
