POL328Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Corruption Perceptions Index, Authoritarianism, Transparency International
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Introduction, thesis, evidence, counterarguments: very broad scope what the key period of political change have been, for instance: nehru period: state building, nation building etc. , functioning of institutions. And how you might evaluate democracy in general and what criteria you would use to evaluate democracy. Variation in democratic development in sa: when these countries become democratic and how they performed. Even in its de(cid:373)o(cid:272)rati(cid:272) periods, (cid:449)h(cid:455) has ba(cid:374)gladesh re(cid:373)ai(cid:374)ed a (cid:862)partial de(cid:373)o(cid:272)ra(cid:272)(cid:455)? (cid:863) despite an early promise in. India as an exception in 1947 democratic: low levels of economic development. Literacy at the time, 4 years after independence in 1951 was about 18: small middle class; working class, worki(cid:374)g (cid:272)lass: ke(cid:455) to de(cid:373)o(cid:272)ra(cid:272)(cid:455) (cid:271)ut does(cid:374)(cid:859)t e(cid:454)plai(cid:374) for de(cid:373)o(cid:272)ra(cid:272)(cid:455, social inequality. Income and inequality have always been higher than other parts of the developing world: caste system: how did democracy come to take route in a country that had this hieratical system, ethnic heterogeneity, civil participation, colonialism not sufficient.
