Geography 3312A/B Lecture Notes - Sub-Saharan Africa, Good Governance, Overseas Development Institute
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Kleptocrats: poorer developing countries dictators with little regard for the people they control. Jean-claude duvalier, former haitian president: us us million. There is a strong correspondence between being wealthy and being relatively less corrupt. The world is far freer now than it was 25 years ago if freedom is defined politically to mean the right to speak & write without fear of persecution, to assemble, multiparty elections, and due process in law. Across the arab world, people have been struggling for more open, pluralist, democratic society. We cannot know whether and if so how they will get there: the path is not clear, and they face special challenges. Athens = democracy: where forums of citizens (males born in athens) decided policy. It was: majoritarian: the will of the majority of those present ruled direct: the will of citizens was expressed without intermediary representatives. But athenian democracy had little to do with civil liberties and human rights it was shallow.