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Today

• Quiz 1
• Presidentialism Democracy
• Chapter 1

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Presidentialism Democracy

• The Case of Post-Communist Countries

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Do Institutions Matter?

• Are some institutions better than others in
  fostering democracy?
• Parliamentarism a safer bet for new democracies?

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How can we test this?

• Need a group of countries having
• Variable democratic performance
• Variable institutional design

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Dependent Variable Democracy
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• Independent variable
• Political Institutions
• (Presidential powers)

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• Parliamentarism
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• Democracy

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Discussion

• As presidential powers go ?
• Democracy goes ?
• Causality?
• Effect of religion?

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Chapter 1

• Politics Government

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Politics

• Collective
• Diversity of views
• Reconciliation
• Authoritative decisions

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Government

• Two meanings
• Broad Institutions making collective decisions
  
• Narrow Top political positions (presidents,
  prime ministers, cabinet members)

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Governance

• the activity of making collective decisions

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State

• A political community formed by a territorial
  population which is subject to one government

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State (Weber)

• A human community that successfully claims the
  monopoly of legitimate use of physical force
  within a given territory

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Sovereignty

• The ultimate source of authority in society
• Internal sovereignty
• External sovereignty

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• Internal law-making power within a given
  territory
• External international recognition of the
  sovereigns jurisdiction

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Nation

• community
• culture
• territory
• past future
• right to self-rule

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Nationalism

• The doctrine that nations are entitled to
  self-determination

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Power vs. Authority

• Power production of intended effects
• Authority the right to rule
• Power vs. Authority capacity to act vs. the
  right to act

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Authority Legitimacy

• A legitimate government is one based on authority
• Legitimacy an entire government
• Authority a specific position