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Reading Notes:
Lecture Notes:
- Defining Democracy
- Minimalist vs. standard definition of democracy
- Measuring democracy
- Diffusion of democracy
- The role of geographical proximity
- Similar regime types
Measuring Autocratization
- Autocratization vs Democratic Backsliding:
- Autocratization have a more “active” and “conscious” connotation to it, it is the process of deliberately turning the political system to a more centralized, politically less liberal
- Democratic backsliding can be systemic, but actors are less obvious, it is ideological in the sense that it almost hides the actors who are causing the
- Phases of Autocratization from D to A
- Democratic Recession
- Democratic Breakdown
- Autocratic Consolidation
Diffusion of Autocracy
- Clustered Decision Making
- Similar Responses to Similar Conditions
- Economic Shocks
- Cultural Similarities
- Institutional Similarities
- Diffusion
- Learning
- Following the footsteps of early adopters based on
- availability of information
- similarity with adopters
- Following the footsteps of early adopters based on
- Adoption
- Cultural norms (democratic institutions)
- Support groups (electoral systems)
- Competition (judicial independence to attract foreign investment)
- Learning
- Coordination
- Similar Responses to Similar Conditions