POLS 241 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Geopolitics, Military Sociology, Authoritarianism
5 Oct 2013
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Pols241 week 4 readings part 2 chapter 6 in textbook (political crafting of democratic consolidation or. Socioeconomic efficacy and regime legitimacy: the political processing of adversity . Perceptions of a regime"s socioeconomic efficacy are less tightly coupled to perceptions of a regimes democratic legitimacy than is commonly supposed. The high bourgeoisie and working class care about being protected from personal human rights abuses. A regime in which state behavior is constrained by a rule of law is a vital asset in a new democracy. Post-franco spain: the economic situation of spain deteriorated under democracy. The tightly coupled hypothesis would lead us to predict a corresponding decline in the legitimacy of democracy. As the table indicates, the data shows that for spanish citizens there was virtually no connection between the two. As such, clearly in spain other factors besides belief in economic and social efficacy were powerfully affecting citizen"s beliefs about the best political formula for the country.
