POL SCI 157 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Authoritarianism, Civil Liberties, Action Action
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Week 2 notes: governments can be good and can be bad, good western democracies, bad germany"s nazi party, how can you constrain governments, constitution, legitimate democracy (fair elections, diffusion of power, international trade deals and law, get it to control itself, democracy government of the people, by the people, for the people . The legitimacy of power is rooted in ideology: personalist regime rulers usually emerge from power struggles in nominally republican regimes. Legitimacy is rooted in seeking loyalty through patronage and filling key military regimes: electoral authoritarian regimes hold regularly scheduled elections and allow multiple parties to compete but tilt the results in holding party"s favor, do elections promote democracy or reinforce authoritarianism, one view: elections lead to democratization. Political openings and opprotunities for their opposition and opprotunities for the citizens to express their preferences: another view: elections reinforce dictators.
