POL S235 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Failed State, Foal, Illiberal Democracy
23 Feb 2017
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Zimbabwe as a failed nation that turned to authoritarianism . Later did some murdering of innocents , not good stuff. Centre on the individual vs the collective. Authoritarian persistence: the ongoing continuation of an authoritarian regime, such that democratic transition does not take place. Hybrid regime: a class of regime that appears to be neither fully democratic nor full authoritarian, declarative democracy and liberal democracy . Totalitarian regimes: aims to control everything about the citizens lives, Personality cult over the leader or leading party. Theocracies: controlled by religious leaders with strict religion restrictions as its main means of legitimization. You equate a state with it"s leader. Bureaucratic-authoritarian regimes: common in latin america and elsewhere that is associated with control of the state more by a group of elites (often a military leader) than by a single individual leader. Illiberal democracy: a polity with some democratic features but in which political and civil rights are not all guaranteed or protected.
