PSC 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Political Freedom, Non-Governmental Organization
7 Nov 2016
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An independent watchdog non-governmental organization for 75 years. Monitoring and nurturing political freedom in the world. Develop an index to find level of freedom (question asked about partially free ) develop a legend based on a number of things such as free elections, etc. Necessary for political freedom because they are the vehicle for the information provided to the public about their country. If only government documents are released, you are a slave to the government. People"s republic of china controls access on the internet. Largely asia and africa are not free, north america, europe and australia appear to be the only areas that have free press. Geography of political freedom in the world-index scores are a grouping together in certain areas. Universal suffrage-every person in the country with the right to vote is a gold standard. 1900, no, 1950 better, 2000 better still (%country to %population). Three waves of democratization (samuel p. huntington, 1991)
