Lijphart, C1

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Lijphart, C1

• Introduction
• Organizing Democratic Institutions

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Understanding Variations in Democratic Governance

• There are many ways in which, in principle, a
  democracy can be organized and run in practice,
  too, modern democraies exhibit a variety of
  formal governmental institutions, like
  legislatures and courts, as well as political
  party and interest group systems (Lijphart, 1).

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Understanding Variations in Democratic Governance

• The Lincolnian/Wesbterian definition
  government, of, by and for the people.

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Understanding Variations in Democratic Governance

• Question who will do the governing and to
  whose interests should the government be response
  when the people are in disagreement and have
  divergent preferences? (Lijphart, 1).
• Answer 1 The Majority.
• Answer 2 As many people as possible.

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Lijpharts 10 Variables1-5 The
Executive-Parties Dimension
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Lijpharts 10 Variables6-10 The
Federal-UnitaryDimension
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Issues

• Ideal Types v. Reality
• Purposes of such study
• As a means of identification, classification and
  understanding
• To make a judgment (and not necessarily a
  normative one) does this stuff matter?