Evaluations

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• Evaluations
• (please include comments on readings! Most liked
  and most disliked)
• Globalization Barber, Wolf, Stiglitz
• Recap what do we know?
• Final final papers Q A
• Sources

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Evaluations

• Choose a representative
• 10-15 minutes fill the form
• Representative picks forms, puts them in envelope
  keeps them
• Meeting with me after grades turned in
• Results grades posted on the web

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Globalization rankings

• KOFs Index of Globalization
• lthttp//www.kof.ch/globalization/gt
• A.T. Kearney/Foreign Policy Globalization Index
• lthttp//www.atkearney.com/main.taf?p5,4,1,127gt

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Globalization

• Jihad vs. McWorld
• Jihad's centrifugal whirlwind against McWorld's
  centripetal black hole
• Jihad extreme nationalism religious
  fundamentalism
• McWorld globalization

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Jihad and McWorld

• Neither Jihad, nor McWorld needs democracy
  neither promotes democracy
• ? Jihad antagonistic to democracy almost by
  definition
• ? McWorld corporate control of political process
• Solution confederalism (a union of
  semi-autonomous communities)

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Wolf vs. Stiglitz

• Wolf globalization as an unmixed blessing
• Stiglitz cautious support for globalization
• Wolf
• ? opening up is always better than autarky
• ? developing nations access to capital,
  technology, know-how
• ? developed nations their workers have higher
  productivity (compare w Friedman)

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• Stiglitz
• ? globalization can be beneficial
• ? however, it brings most benefits when countries
  manage globalization on their own
• ? two comparisons
• - East Asia vs. other countries
• - East Asia before vs. after the implementation
  of intl economic institutions policies

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What do we know?

• Economic development is good for democracy
• ? keeps democracies democratic (Przeworski,
  exogenous account)
• ? makes non-democracies democratic (endogenous
  account)
• Countries need a strong (functional) state

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Institutional Design

• Parliamentarism vs. presidentialism
• ? parliamentary regimes are better for democracy
  democratic (Linz, Lijphart, mainstream)
• ? strength of the legislature is what matters
  (Fish)
• Federalism not just one type, but a variety of
  federal systems
• Electoral systems
• ? PR better than majoritarian systems (Lijphart,
  Powell)
• ? context matters (New Zealand vs. Papua New
  Guinea)

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Religion, ethnicity, and democracy

• Islam democracy?
• ? Islam is inimical to democracy (Huntington)
• ? Islam inimical to gender equality (Norris
  Inglehart Fish)
• ? Islam is not inimical to democracy (Stepan)
• Ethnic fragmentation
• ? typically seen as bad for democracy
• ? challenges to this view (e.g., Fish)