POLI 322 Lecture : POLI 322 oct 3 conference.docx

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 322
• Professor: Narendra Subramanian

Document Summary

Central point: despite the apparent divergence, there is a converging political trajectory (both are structurally authoritarian) Province is the political arena; it was never firmly unified. Both authoritarian, even though one is based on democratic elections and the other is based on military rule. In both states, there is a very personalized style of government. In pakistan, there was no sense of consensus and consolidation. There was coercion as a means to deal with conflicts. Author raised the question of why the military allowed the un-solid democracy to continue. Jallah very sharply and accurately points out that there is convergence under a fa ade of divergence. Important to note, however, that this article only discusses the period up to 1971. Ids should be about 2 to 2. 5 pages. Pakistan was made to have a decentralized state system, but it ended up with a strong centralized power. Lack of incentive among the elites to establish a democracy.