POLB92H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Congress, Presidential System, Authoritarianism
25 Feb 2014
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Midterm: 2-3 multiple choice, 4-5 short answer, study sheet on blackboard! If he gives you a structuralism argument, argue the voluntarism rebuttal as your answer. Answers will be found in the readings, so make a chart that analyze the readings of the course. Know the lectures too: countries that are not democratic, democracy has free and fair elections, civil liberates, and universal adult. Authoritarian regimes are the opposite: hybrid/ competitive: countries that are both democratic, but also authoritarian in the fact that they may not have civil liberties, normal authoritarianism: the opposite of democracy (cuba), totalitarianism. Explanations of authoritarianism: when discussing the economic development of authoritarian countries, we see that wealthy countries tend to be more democratic. As the world urbanizes and becomes wealthier the number of democracy increases (modernization): modernization in order to become wealthy a country needs to industrialize. In order to industrialize they need to urbanize and be educated to give people work skills.
