CAS PO 151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Anti-Communism, Taxation In Russia, Independent National Electoral Commission

• School: Boston University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: CAS PO 151
• Professor: Taylor Boas

Document Summary

There"s been an overall trend towards democracy. There were periods where regime change tended to. Not all third wave transitions end in a fully functioning democracy. No third reverse wave, and there may not ever be one: some but not complete, freedom of speech and freedom of press, the executive branch concentrates power. Justice isn"t impartial: corruption in police or bureaucracy, politicians not accountable between elections, party system offers few real policy options, socioeconomic inequality. Concerns participation, representation, rule of law, not necessary components of democracy. Third-wave transitions often involve pacts: deals between elites in regime, opposition: regime elites: hardliners, soft-liners, opposition elites: radicals, moderates. Soft-liners will cede power, but they want to influence the process. If there were just hardliners and soft-liners in society, there would never be a democracy because there. A new democracy isn"t certain to endure. He thought it would compensate for the declining economic performance.