POL 2104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Seymour Martin Lipset
20 Aug 2016
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Competition (regular, free and fair multiparty elections) Liberty (high level of civil and political liberties) Middle range de nition of democratization, as added to by philippe schmitter and terry karl. No extra political veto (military, mncs, civil services, foreign donors, etc should not be able to in uence, bribe or overthrow democratic vote) Common good should be the driving force. Freedom house uses countries ratings of 1-7 to rank political rights and civil liberties. World is then divided into free, partly free and not free. They present the information in a graph. There is a certain amount of arbitrariness in ranking (what is the difference between 1 and. Has limitations but is useful in some other ways. Things are the way they are due to structural (prior) conditions. A country"s democratic-ness is determined by factors somewhat outside its control. Seymour lipset identi ed preconditions for democracy including economic development (industrialization, urbanization, wealth, people want their say, rights)
