POLI 212 Lecture Notes - Autocracy, Liberal Democracy, Collectively Exhaustive Events
28 Sep 2014
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Norms which shape the political expectations and behaviour. Regimes that we look at are associated with states: sit on top of states, with territorial dimension. Boundary of regimes = boundary of states. Challenging/try to change the rules built in a regime. Day to day politics isolated from these challenges. Not intrinsically bounded: how we define different types of regimes, authors have different typologies which make it all different, choices available to us, understand typology of the 3 authors, siaroff, lijphart, esping-andersen, siaroff. Count of regimes from 2007 192 regimes he wants to classify somehow. Classification scheme based on: what"s produced (typology) is jointly exhaustive and mutually exclusive of all cases, all the cases classified and all of them in a unique category. Wants to reduce the variation to simple types. Continuum bounded at one end by democracy and the other with autocracy. In the middle = more fine grained descriptions of both democratic and autocratic regimes.
