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Common people, laborers, uneducated
In ancient Greece these were not necessarily the same citizens, and did not include the Aristocracy |
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Elections were not a regular feature
- people were appointed to offices by lots
-It was democratic because everyone had the same opportunity to reach an office |
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| Aristotle's Classification of Regimes: "For the Good of All" |
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| Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Politeia |
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| Aristotle's Classification of Regimes: "For the Good of the Rulers" |
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| Tyranny, Oligarchy, Democracy |
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| Modern Democracy - Procedural/Minimalist |
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| Classifies political regimes in regard to their institutions and procedures |
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| Dahl - Two Dimensions of Democracy |
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- Contestation
- Inclusion |
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| Modern Democracy - Substantive |
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Classifies states as democratic based on outcomes
Freedom House is a substantive democracy |
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Focused on Dahl's Contestation
-A state is a democracy if and only if all four criteria are met
1. the chief executive is elected
2. the lower house of the legislature is elected
3. there is more than one party competing
4. an alternation in power under indenctical electoral rules has taken place |
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The explanatory variable
What we think has caused the dependent variable to occur |
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The thing we are explaining
In this case, democracy |
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| Implications of Modernization Theory and the "Survival Story" |
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1. Democracy is more common in rich countries
2. Transitions to dictatorship become less likely as wealth increases |
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| Casual Process for Classic Modernization Theory |
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| As economic develop increases, democracy is more likely |
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| Predicts that democracy is more likely to emerge and survive as countries develop and become wealthier |
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| Predicts that democracy is more likely to survive as countries develop and become wealthier, however it is not more likely to EMERGE |
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| Dominant Strategy Nash Equilibrium |
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| Both players have dominant strategies, thus describing theft will be endemic. Hobbes describes life in the state of nature as (solitary, poor, nasty, brutish) |
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| Dahl's level of contestation |
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| Captures the extent to which citizens are free to organize themselves into competing blocs in order to press for the policies and outcomes they desire |
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annual measure of global freedom, under the assumption that freedom and democracy are synonymous.
Is there corruption, are there citizen rights? |
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| Measurement Level - Freedom House |
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| Measurement Level - Polity IV |
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| Only has two descrete categories or values |
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| can take on any intermediate value within a given range |
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