POL-UA 500 Lecture 7: POL-UA 500, Lecture 7 Notes
5 Dec 2016
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Lecture 7, the moment of democratic transition continued: 9/26/2016. This category focuses on individual actors - specifically the old regime. One key version of this says that when the old regime loses its legitimacy, the people in the country no longer accept the right of the regime to be in office, and it is overthrown. Instability can lead to a lack of faith in the legitimacy of the regime. One opinion of censorship is that it is actually used to prevent any perceptions of instability from taking hold. A second version of this argument says that we should look for splits among the old. Instead of the emergence of soft-liners, different factions of hard-liners may emerge. This category focuses on individual actors - specifically the opposition. One version of this argument is that you are more likely to get a transition to democracy if there is a pre-existing civil society.
