PLCP 3012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Structural Adjustment, Authoritarianism

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Today: democratization, fragile states and failed states. Democratization : we usually use a very minimal definition of democracy. What is that minimal definition of . Elections -- you"re supposed to have competitive, free and fair elections that take place at regular intervals (ex 5 years, 7 years, depending on constitution) Related to a series of economic and political developments on a global scale. 1. the rise of civil society associations. Domain where private citizens can organize and create. Domain that is not part of the state / government. Under a dictatorship, the civil society is severely restricted. The rise of civil societies takes responsibilities away from the state. 3. collapse of communism and of the soviet empire. No one had been expecting the ussr to fall in 1980s -- dictators. Price of transition -- no one would look into finances. President of benin from 1972 to 1991 and again from 1996 to. Are failed states inevitable? not necessarily says fatton.

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