GNED 1303 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Cultural Genocide, Leninism, Indira Gandhi
9 Dec 2016
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Chapter 12, which we read for this coming (cid:449)eek, talks a(cid:271)out the (cid:862)u(cid:374)derlyi(cid:374)g (cid:272)o(cid:374)ditio(cid:374)s(cid:863) (cid:374)e(cid:272)essary for a de(cid:373)o(cid:272)ra(cid:272)y to (cid:449)ork. Make sure you note down the five essential conditions for a democracy to survive (listed on p. 147 but described in greater detail later in the chapter). Note that dahl does(cid:374)"t regard this list as hard and fast. There is some remarkable flexibility built into the achievement of these criteria. 1) control of military and police by elected officials. 3) no strong foreign control hostile to democracy: favorable conditions for democracy are: 4) a modern market economy and society. Nicaragua between 1948 and 1982 2/3 gained power by means other than free and fair elections (usually military coup) Costa rica on the other hand has been a democracy in that region since 1950 because their democratic president abolished the military. Within a generation or two after immigrants reached the.
