POLI 4059 Lecture : POLI 4059 Politics Of The Middle East Pluralistic Regimes
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Pluralistic regimes: multiple factions that can compete for power, realistic chance of actually succeeding, two types. A regime in which institutions exist to ensure that the politics is. Politics is competitive, have institutions to ensure competition but they are. Ex: elections partially manipulated, islamist parties outlawed, censored: only three countries have been democratic or semi- democratic, democracy competitive, semi- democratic flawed media. Israel o: turkey, lebanon, tunisia and morocco could be called semi- democratic due to the arab spring. How the institutions operate: israel, a long standing democracy, reasons to why it"s different. Israel is a european state within the middle east. Zionist established the formal state of israel with the help of un. European jewish immigrants in the early 20th century created the country. Created by a zionist movement as a homeland for the world"s jews. Was created in 1948 on land owned and occupied by other people (1948) its formation out.
