1. INTL 190: Democracy in the Developing World
Spring 2012

2. THE STATE OF DEMOCRACY: OVERVIEW
Schedule and Assignments
Synthesis: Diamond, Spirit of Democracy, Chapters 8-11
Collier and Levitsky, “Democracy with Adjectives”
Munck and Verkuilen, “Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy” <optional>

4. “SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY”
Purposeful action: “struggle, strategy, ingenuity, vision, courage, conviction, compromise, and choices by human actors… politics in the best sense of the word.”
“Increasingly, democratic values and aspirations are becoming universal…”
“a change of heart”
Question: “can the whole world become democratic?”

5. POLITICAL REGIME TYPES
Electoral democracy = free and fair elections
Liberal democracy = democratic elections + “thick” dimensions (citizen rights)
Illiberal democracy = elections without all other attributes (citizen rights)
Pseudemocracy ̴ electoral authoritarian regimes
Note: authoritarianism ≠ totalitarianism