IRG 320F Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Samizdat, Free Market, Proportional Representation
10 May 2016
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Ex: describe three structural preconditions for democracy, what are common weakness for foreign aid, how does religion limit democracy. Lit review example #1: check phone for full text. Meal plan: main idea (one idea per paragraph, evidence (use citations, analysis, link to next paragraph. Create undemocratic leaders? (leaders committed to exclude one group) Can hurt women"s overall role (lack of voting) Electoral rules: formal institutions that encourage strategic behavior of elites/voters and force their coordination. Two common electoral system: plurality: single member district. Tends to produce two big parties: proportional representation. Nondemocratic regime types: totalitarianism, post-totalitarianism, sultanism, authoritarianism. Ex: you can hike, but don"t ask the govt. to protect the environment. Formally ill-defined executive power leader that exercises power within a set of norms largely co- opting groups, individualistic exec. power. Class readings: weyland explains threats to democracy and rising of non-democratic regimes (emerge)
