PSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Nepotism, Social Capital, Askar Akayev

• School: GWU
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSC 1001
• Professor: Morgan Kimberly

Document Summary

Mikhail gorbachev: great democratizers, i(cid:454) (cid:455)ears after risi(cid:374)g to the top of o(cid:374)e of histor(cid:455)"s (cid:373)ost repressi(cid:448)e regi(cid:373)es had had . 1991 - went into reverse track: soviet union broke apart into 15 newly independent states. Presidents who were first widely seen as democrats would up using authoritarian methods: that leaders of such diverse backgrounds ended up ruling in the same nondemocratic way hints at something deeper. Eduard he(cid:448)ard(cid:374)adze of georgia, (cid:449)ho as gor(cid:271)a(cid:272)he(cid:448)"s foreig(cid:374) (cid:373)i(cid:374)ister took part in ending the cold war and then resigned to warn of the soviet hard- li(cid:374)ers" (cid:272)oup that (cid:272)a(cid:373)e i(cid:374) 1991. Ar(cid:373)e(cid:374)ia"s preside(cid:374)t le(cid:448)o(cid:374) ter-petrossian, a former dissident. Academic who had made his career outside the communist party apparatus a(cid:374)d (cid:449)as i(cid:374)itiall(cid:455) (cid:448)ie(cid:449)ed as his (cid:272)ou(cid:374)tr(cid:455)"s great de(cid:373)o(cid:272)rati(cid:272) hope. A pattern of regime cycling: pattern of cycling or oscillation as regimes waver back and forth between the autocratic and democratic ends of the political-rights spectrum.