PSCI-1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Polling Place, Universal Suffrage, Parallel Society
31 Aug 2018
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Definition: has eliminated almost all pre-existing pluralismhas guiding utopian ideologyextensive and intensive mobilizationleadership that ruleswith undefined limits . Pluralism - no meaningful pluralism; party monopoly replaced plurality. Mobilization - extensive, obligatory, not through repression, intensive (reinforce power of. Ideology - elaborate, transformative societal vision (ie socialism) regime) Leadership - undefined limits, access to it through commitment to organization that is governing in power (climbing political party) Definition: sultanism tend[s] to arise whenever traditional domination develops and administration and a military force which are purely personal instruments of the master . Pluralism - at whims of leader, no political pluralism, not necessarily eliminated. Mobilization - ceremonial, through threat of punishment (compulsory) - fake . How far (time-wise) from peak of totalitarian rule as a continuum. Not necessarily transitional state (may get stuck) Pluralism - limited politically, exists elsewhere (economic/social), second culture. Underground newspapers, etc = parallel society in opposition to regime.
