10. Consolidation of power in hands of majority
Characterized by:
Exclusiveness
Competititveness
Adversarial Nature
What are the model’s traditional features?
11.
12. Sharing of power for broader participation
and agreement in govt.
Characterized by:
Inclusiveness
Bargaining
Compromise
What are the model’s traditional features?
16. Control of Military & Police by Elected Officials
Impact on Internal Sovereignty
Many governments in this region
gained power by military coups
and other non-democratic means.
Costa Rica = Democracy
17. Control of Military & Police by ElectedOfficials
Democratic Beliefs and Political Culture
Citizen preference of democracy
Occurs through socialization
Reciting the Pledge of Allegiance
in elementary school is an early
form of political socialization.
18. Control of Military and Police by ElectedOfficials
Democratic Beliefs and PoliticalCulture
No Foreign Control Hostile to Democracy
Country cannot be influenced by non-democratic or
authoritarian entity
19. Limited or No Cultural Conflict
“Us” vs. “Them”
Democratic Institutions amid Cultural Diversity?
▪ Assimilation
▪ Decision by Consensus
▪ Electoral Systems
▪ Separation
Modern Market Economy and Society
22. Democracy-Dictatorship Measure
Governmental Offices
▪ Chief Executive and Legislature are ELECTED
Contestation
▪ Uncertainty – Outcome NOT known beforehand
▪ Irreversibility –Winner of election actually takes office
▪ Repeatability – Elections occur at regular intervals
23.
24. Democracy-Dictatorship Measure
POLITY Measure
Competitiveness and Openness of Executive
Recruitment
▪ Can anyone run for president? (Restrictions in U.S.)
Regulation and Competitiveness of Political
Participation
▪ How many political parties exist?
25. Democracy-Dictatorship Measure
POLITY Measure
Freedom House Measure
Political Rights
▪ Electoral Process, Participation, Functioning of Govt.
Civil Rights
▪ Freedom of Expression, Rule of Law, Personal Autonomy
26.
27. We can argue that the U.S. became a democracy at different historical points.
34. Origins inWorld
War II
• Democracy in
Europe
• Independence
Movements
Receded by
1960s
• Military Coups and
Dictatorships
• ColdWar Politics
35. Democratic
Governments
• Latin America
• Asia
Democracy in
Europe
• Fall of BerlinWall
Former Soviet
Nations Declare
Independence
• Lithuania
• Belarus
• Armenia
36.
37.
38.
39. Structural vs.
Contingent Approach
International vs.
Domestic Approach
Economic vs.
Political Approach