POL 1025 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Liberal Democracy, Democracy Promotion, Policy Debate
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Institutions, checks & balances: similar interests/values, no need for liberation only for autocracies, more stable, wealthier. Explanations: empowering the mass public: kantian logic. No: the limits of public constraints, publics can be warlike, the power of institutions. Immanuel kant, perpetual peace: republics are more pacific because war then requires the approval of those who bear its costs. Answer #4: liberal democracy: general, cause of war: the undemocratic nature of international politics. Secret agreements (wilson"s #1 point: solution: democratic governments and processes. Bargaining rather than coercion: fact: democracies have rarely (almost never) fought each other. Implications: democracies are more effective at deterrence, easier to identify solutions short of war, liberal norms: peaceful conflict resolution, liberal states externalize their internal conflict-resolution mechanisms, electoral institutions & participation vs. the rule of law & contestation. Joint liberal democracy externalization of internal conflict resolution mechanisms. Implications: liberal peace vs. democratic peace, importance of mutual perception, liberal states = most likely to form security community.
