POL SCI 51A Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Arab Spring, Hashemites, Clientelism
26 Jun 2017
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Definition: political violence: violence carried out for political ends . Lack of political institutions so people can not voice their concerns. The flow of ideas can spark political violence like revolution (ex: arab. Individual personalities engage in political violence, (like asahara. Shoko, the mastermind behind the deadly biological weapons attack on the tokyo subway) To this i want you to also ask . The authors argue that inequality, democracy and citizenship should be studied together. But the word inequality doesn"t really capture the extreme hardships faced by people in developing countries. Democracy: a system of government in which power is vested in the people who rule either directly or through freely elected representatives. Citizenship : the state of being vested with the right privileges and duties of an equal citizen. But that does democracy and citizenship mean given such large scale poverty. A hungry man is not a free man.
