POLSCI 2XX3 Lecture Notes - Augusto Pinochet, Role Of Christianity In Civilization, Communism

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 2XX3
• Professor: Richard Stubbs

Document Summary

Democratic regime the ensemble of procedural rules for collective decision making, in which the widest possible participation is expected. Political democracy: a type of political regime designed to resolve the institutional relations between a state and its subjects. Argentina; commitment to prosecute and punish military officers involved in human rights abuses: punished those who were demanding social, political, cultural rights. That brought about economic growth and not necessarily an improvement on the life of people. Colored and shaped by the cold war: threat of international communism threatening to destroy western. Christian civilization: look at the political winds moved by soviet/capitalism. President reagan made it a commitment to ensure that he d bring an end to communism; brings about the end of the cold war; What is the rationale for having military governments in place if the threat of communism no longer exists!