[POL215Y1] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (103 pages long!)
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Searching new ways of legitimizing the rule a return to civilian rule and managed election allowed the regime to emulate effective formulas used by other authoritarian and semi-authoritarian regimes in the region temporarily on its way towards reform. October 11 cambodia and laos lecture: economic development, predictability: Ambiguous, small middle class v. s. authoritarian regime: split in the elite prior to the democratic opening, authoritarian regime falling does not necessarily lead to democracy, can be another authoritarian regime, cohesiveness. Narrow down to political culture (norms, notions) Dramatic event shape how people think: regime changes. The khmer rouge regime (1975 - 1979) Why continuing authoritarian regime: collapse of authoritarian regime but a renew authoritarian, factors: government, economy, elite, sihanouk"s rule. French colonial rule expanded into cambodia and laos. Attempt for the kingdom to stay outside the cold war. It could not stay away from escalation from vietnam, 1960s as the war became intensive, incursions across the borders.