PO221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Non-Governmental Organization, Liberal Democracy
20 Oct 2014
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Democracy/democratization: while the idea of democracy has spread across the globe, and the forms of democracy have also spread, we don"t always find the substance of democracy flowing quite as readily around the world. 2 kinds of regimes that tend to call themselves democracies". Electoral democracies observe at least some of the forms of democracy. Liberal democracies look at the real substance of democracy: both forms and substance of democracy present, things like responsible government, citizens also enjoy civil liberties, rule of law consistent, objective, knowable laws. Gradiations on a continuum between these two types; not clear dividing lines. Most scholars point to the 1830s in britain in terms of a major step in the between the two direction of democracy. Grey cases like britain are quite common. Non-governmental organization based in the us known as freedom house". Produce a publication known as freedom in the world", comes out roughly once per year.
