POLI 227 Lecture 5: State Building and Challenges to Democracy
27 Jul 2016
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Democracy is key to modernization theory, sees it as moving forward and dependency theory too. Procedural v. liberal v. substantive(they distinguish between each) Why do some states become/ stay democratic while others do not. Procedural democracy- political system with free and faire elections. Holds free and fair elections- election based definition. Issue of sufferage and voting/ os there universal or near universal sufferage. Regularly scheduled- limitations from some states that make the move to democracy that doesn"t stick- it happens once than not again for 40 years. Competitive political parties- sometimes only one party/ assuming a competitive election happening. Tripled 1974-2005: marginal progress in that way- some question, are some of these states democracys or semi-democracies. Semi-democracy: elections, but are there other attributes attributed to a democratic state that are still missing because of this issue of having the presence of elections and lack of other demographic values, we compare the procedural to full(liberal) democracy)
