Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Liberal Democracy, Group Cohesiveness, Wave Of Democracy
8 Apr 2016
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Representative democracy is: a regime that emphasizes elections. A transition from dictatorship to democracy is an example of a change of: regime. Government (heywood): institutional processes involved in making and implementing collective decisions. Political system (heywood): government, plus broader structures and processes of interaction with society. Degrees of institutionalization (how locked in, institutionalized, how quickly and slowly are they likely to change; are these different elements: regime, government, state) Regime: rules determining distribution of power within the state. Change is not as rare as in the state, but still rather unusual. Aristotle: mixed regime best -> polity plus aristocracy (ruling of the many, by rule of the few) The global spread of political regimes, and how they have developed over time. Begins with the shifting to the concept of the western world. The west starts to build its degree of differentiation based on its economical and political advancement relative to the east.
