collected snippets of immediate importance...


Thursday, April 29, 2010

linz and stepan, breakdown of democratic regimes

(4): calling for attention to be paid to political actors, who work--they acknowledge--in socio-economic structures, but in ways that are not pre-determined. [despite the banality of this observation, i can use this to make the claim about 'structural complex' vs. individual transitions]

(7): this study will not apply to pakistan/nigeria, where breakdown coincided with the process of state-building [this is why, in other words, there is a particularly acute artificiality to the pakistan project]

(12): wanting to move away from idea that democracy is just a means to some socioeconomic order, in the eyes of the electorate, or whatever. they argue that the two can be analytically separated--and thus, you can have four constellations, corresponding to high or low legitimacy for each.

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