POL 2104 Chapter Notes -Independent Business, Wield, Utopia
6 Jul 2014
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Consociational democracy and majoritarian democracy are subtypes of democracy and not different regimes. Pluralist democratic theory (especially the group theory) Individuals in civil society who enter into numerous freely formed interest groups that are relatively autonomous and often criss-crossing. The many groups in civil society attempt to aggregate their interests and compete against each other in political society to influence state policies. Some limited political pluralism and often quite extensive economic and social pluralism. Many of the manifestations of the limited political pluralism and the extensive social and economic pluralism predate the authoritarian regime. Leadership is characterized by a political system in which a leader or occasionally small group exercises power within formally ill-defined but actually quite predictable norms. There are often extensive efforts to co-opt old elite groups into leadership roles, and there is some autonomy in state careers and in the military.
