01:790:103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Alexis De Tocqueville, Berlin Wall, Liberal Democracy
25 Apr 2016
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The most important element of a democratic government is: the presence of free and fair elections. Institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people"s votes josef schumpeter, capitalism, Examples of elections without democracy: china (at the local level), Nazi germany = hitler ran for office. There are many times today where elections are held but there is still no democracy. Not every government that gets elected to power is democratic. They were the national socialists versus the communists. They had to make a choice and the nazi"s seemed like the better choice. Serbia, croatia (1990) elections brought national populists to government. Franjo tu man come to power and (someone else in serbia) and they caused a ton of deaths. Venezuela (2002) shaves comes to power in 1998. By 2002 he is already working to get constitutional rights taken away.
