POLI 319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Pentagon
13 May 2018
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POLI319: Friday April 6th, 2018
Low Itesity Deocracy
- Gills and Rocamora quote
- Play on words around concept of low intensity warfare: a term originally coined by US
pentagon which refers to a war that is not a full blow high intensity war like a war between
major or super powers but rather a war typically waged by a country like the US vs. a country in
the Third World (Vietnam)
- wars in El Salvador etc. considered low intensity wars
- Moody guest lecture: security post Cold war very much relates to low intensity democracy
- Gills and Rocamora highlighting the fact that democracy needs to bring thoroughgoing change
within society otherwise it will be a very low quality democracy; one that is inherently unstable
and insecure
- Not preoccupied by democratic transition, they are talking about democracy as reflected by
equality within society; to the extent remains unattainable that undermines the quality of
democracy overall
- When democracy arises, does it represent freedom for people or freedom for markets?
(restrictions on capital lifted but human rights etc. not change)
- similar themes to what Moody talked about to us last class: transformation of El Salvadorian
economy with an ongoing high level of violence and insecurity post war
Pluralis ad Neopluralis
- Pluralis refers to politial opetitio etee arious uits or groups (pre-democracy
situation where political system defined by competing groups in society vying for political
power not necessarily violent, within pluralism democracy can be placed as a system where
there is political competition) ancestor to democracy; early political configuration which creates
condition by which democracy can arise
- Futilism: seeds for democracy in Europe because it has that aspect of pluralism
- Phillip Oxhorn (2007) catching up to literature that reflects certain aspects of governance in
Latin America in the present day
- Oxhorn arguing that much of Latin America today features neopluralist arrangements; sees a
configuration where there are groups competing for control of the state through democratic
proesses ut do ot represet popular oies
- Elite groups not representing in a through going fashion the broader mass interests
- Oxhorn states that in most countries throughout the region, what If democracy endures
without addressing the issue of inequality or fixing the burdening issue of inequality in Latin
America
- will it lead to an era where people lose faith in democracy and start looking for other modes of
representation in order to give them a voice?
Neopluralism (Oxhorn 2007)
- Market centred pattern of political incorporation
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Document Summary
Poli319: friday april 6th, 2018 (cid:862)low i(cid:374)te(cid:374)sity de(cid:373)ocracy(cid:863) Wars in el salvador etc. considered low intensity wars. Moody guest lecture: security post cold war very much relates to low intensity democracy. Gills and rocamora highlighting the fact that democracy needs to bring thoroughgoing change within society otherwise it will be a very low quality democracy; one that is inherently unstable and insecure. Not preoccupied by democratic transition, they are talking about democracy as reflected by equality within society; to the extent remains unattainable that undermines the quality of democracy overall. When democracy arises, does it represent freedom for people or freedom for markets? (restrictions on capital lifted but human rights etc. not change) Similar themes to what moody talked about to us last class: transformation of el salvadorian economy with an ongoing high level of violence and insecurity post war. Futilism: seeds for democracy in europe because it has that aspect of pluralism.
