POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ideal Type, Polyarchy, Authoritarianism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 110
• Professor: Oded Haklai

Document Summary

Main regime types system of the government. Hybrid (authoritarian with some elements of electoral procedures) limitations of the authoritarian leader(s) are greater than those of regular authoritarianism and have potential for democratic government: e. g. Therefore, elections are a must in a democracy this notion of democracy is cultural relative and other forms of democracy and that in their societies, the right to rule is not determined by representation. Attempt to justify a pro-longed non- democratic ruler without requiring to be elected based on cultural relativity (excuse by authoritarian leaders). Other potential forms of government those are legitimate and representative of population but not done through regularized mechanism. Fair in sense that election results are not rigged. All votes have equal weight french population in algerian, french population demanded french republic extend voting rights to algeria, but french population was minority so every french vote counted as 7.