Introduction to Global Challenges

WEEK 5 Democracy contra Non-Democracy (Jan Holzer)

Obligatory reading 

Schmitter, P. - Karl, T. L.: What Democracy Is…And Is Not, Journal of Democracy, Vol. 2, No 3, 1991, pp. 75-88.

 

What Democracy Is and Is Not
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Question 4:

Please, call the "procedural minimal" conditions that must be present for modem political democracy by R. A. Dahl?


Optional reading 

Brooker, P.: Non-Democratic Regimes. Theory, Government and Politics, Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire: Macmillan Press 2000.

Grugel, J.: Democratization. A Critical Introduction, Palgrave: Macmillan Press 2002.

Chehabi, H. E. - Linz, J. J. (eds.): Sultanistic Regimes, London – Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP 1998, pp. 3-48.

Linz, J. J.: Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes, London: Boulder 2000.

Linz, J. J. - Stepan, A.: Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation. Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe, London – Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP 1996.

Sartori, G.: Theory of Democracy Revisited, Oxford UP 1977.

Question 4:

Please, call the "procedural minimal" conditions that must be present for modem political democracy by R. A. Dahl?

 


Optional reading 

Brooker, P.: Non-Democratic Regimes. Theory, Government and Politics, Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire: Macmillan Press 2000.

Grugel, J.: Democratization. A Critical Introduction, Palgrave: Macmillan Press 2002.

Chehabi, H. E. - Linz, J. J. (eds.): Sultanistic Regimes, London – Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP 1998, pp. 3-48.

Linz, J. J.: Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes, London: Boulder 2000.

Linz, J. J. - Stepan, A.: Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation. Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe, London – Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP 1996.

Sartori, G.: Theory of Democracy Revisited, Oxford UP 1977.