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| what is a founding election |
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| the first election after a regime change |
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| what are the three characteristics that sorenson believes are emblematic of these transitioning countries |
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| the lack of stateness, elite domination, the being electoral democracies |
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| grugel's alternative approach to democratization which is offered at the end, includes the following three elements |
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| the state, civil society, and the global political economy |
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| the four countries that were identified as the four tigers by Sorenson were |
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| South Korea, hong kong, Singapore, Taiwan |
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| gelvin talks about a "bulge" that happened to one group in the population in Arab Spring countries. What does this refer to? |
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| the number of states providing a "high standard of human welfare" to its populations |
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upward trend since 1973
45% of countries are Ds |
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russsia, China
number of successive years with no upward movement |
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philippines, N korea
modern dictators are getting smarter
strong censorship of press
middle east |
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Nominal - yes/no
ordinal - put in order (Freedom House)
Interval - Cant be ranked, no true 0
ratio - can be ranked, counted |
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| Regan westminster address 1982 |
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democracy is a flower (not a fragile flower, need cultivating wealth, freedom, must take action). global threat (China).
Created NED National Endowment for Democracy |
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| whats NED do? (National Endowment for Democracy) |
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no direct aid to countries
grants instead
NGOs get grants
no military aid |
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| Bush HW Bush (Bush 1) with D promotion |
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| carrot and stick policy. Removed Noriega from Panama and was actually about D |
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Likes D
Tried to push human rights in China and Indonesia
Created new offices USAID
Believed in community of D |
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| realism perspective about D |
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| recognize what interests are at stake. Balance of power -> sovereignty -> interest -> security |
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| idealism perspective about D |
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before 9/11 african aid work
belived in bottom up aproach, highly realist, modest democracy assistance
after 9/11 MCC
Iraq
Afghanistan |
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Millennium Challenge Corp 2004. Agreements and conditional aid. "ruling justly"
account for hybrid regimes that couldn't establish rule of law |
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