SOSC 2800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Universal Suffrage, Civil Liberties

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 2800
• Professor: Merouan Mekouar

Document Summary

Sosc 2800 - development in comparative and historical perspective november 7th, 2016. Procedural definitions: minimalist definitions (ex: electoral democracies, minimalist definitions (ex: electoral democracies) Substantive/outcome-based definitions: maximalist definitions (ideal, procedural democracy, participation, competition, accountability, rule of law. Procedural democracy: minimalist definition: electoral democracies, ele(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s (cid:272)o(cid:374)du(cid:272)ted (cid:271)ut , civil rights violations, no free media, state brutality, military interventions, examples, malaysia, nigeria . Liberal democracies: elected officials, universal suffrage, free elections. Sosc 2800 - development in comparative and historical perspective november 7th, 2016: reasonable chance to win for opposition parties, civil liberties. Includes all the procedural elements of a full democracy: and, measure of outcomes, health, literacy, socio-economic equality. Authoritarian regimes: good or bad for development, failure in africa, most of latin america, success in east asia. Easter(cid:374)/souther(cid:374) europe, lati(cid:374) a(cid:373)eri(cid:272)a, parts of afri(cid:272)a, asia . The 3rd wave: causes: causes, economic crisis, lack of legitimacy, rising middle-class.