POLS 1202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Civil Liberties, Life Satisfaction
12 Sep 2018
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Recent (1999 or later) breakdowns of democracy have not followed crises. One in 10 democracies with incomes less than (1985) dies when the economy shrunk for 1 year. In countries where income was between 2-5k, the rate is 1 in 16. Legitimacy and wealth can buy a lot of room. Specific support for democratic actors and institutions. Approval of core regime principles and values. Performance (as with democracy) matters a lot more for diffuse support than specific support. People can believe democracy isn"t working in their country and still believe it"s the best system. Even the best designed institutions need a compatible mass culture (inglehart 2005) Huntington: islamic/confucianist countries are unlikely to democratize. These approaches are almost always too broad. Catholics may accept the assumptions of political democracy, but never those of religious tolerancea real dilemma [thus] exists for the democratic process (lipset 1959, 95)
