POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Alberto Fujimori, Primitive Communism, Liberal Democracy
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Writing assignment: 10 page paper, divided into 3 parts, annotated bibliography due october explained in first tutorial, rough draft due january, final draft due february, ask questions during tutorial. If you are uneducated you might be unaware of how people are trying to influence you. If you say that people who are literate can only vote then you are limiting voting rights: ex. Political culture of tolerance part of another party and allow them to win office: allows competition and is tolerant, kaplan says democracy is a capstone and elections could backfire and lead to. If a society does not have tolerance, then country can lead to violence civil war and chaos. If you don"t have background culture of tolerance, then elections can spark violence rather than promote prosperity. Modernization theory (not kaplan"s but he follows this theory) Wealth, education and leads to open class system, large middle class which then leads to democratic transition, democratic stability.
