INTL 3300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Constitutional Liberalism, Illiberal Democracy, Delegative Democracy

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: International Affairs
• Course: INTL 3300
• Professor: Wang

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Intl 3300 - lecture 6: authoritarian regimes and democratic breakdown. Authoritarianism: word to cover different forms of non-democratic regimes. Defined by linz, 1964 as having limited political pluralism, legitimacy based on emotion, minimal social mobilization, and informally defined executive power with often vague and shifting powers. Authoritarian regimes classified by how the regime centers on an individual, how it expounds an overarching ideology, and how it constrains human rights. North korea"s juche ideology, soviet union (1917-1991), nazi germany (1933-1945) Theocracy: controlled by a religious leader or has very strict religious restrictions that use religion as its main mode of legitimation; ex. Bureaucratic-authoritarian regimes: the state is controlled by a group of elites (often military) rather than a single leader: legitimacy maintenance: belief that a strong hand is needed to establish order, party dictatorship: when one party rules; ex. Illiberal democracy: term developed by zakaria, 1997: has constitutional democracy.