To explain the different approaches to the democratic breakdowns and which are the factors that enlighten this phenomenon it is been highly important in the comparative literature, because it allows us to observe and give reasons about the different process of the countries in their political development. One of the question that we must answer for this week reading is: One of the classic accounts of democratic breakdown, by Juan Linz, argues that “Breakdown is the result of processes initiated by the government’s incapacity to solve problems for which the disloyal oppositions offer themselves as a solution.” Based on this week’s readings and your knowledge of cases, do you agree? My primary approach to this is that I am partially agree …show more content…
This is the main reason why the people start to create private association activities to find solutions to the issues that the state cannot resolve (Berman, 1997). I think this I the central reason why the Weimar Republic fails, with a weak government the civil society was forced to developed itself for achieving particular wellbeing, the state was the organization which does not create the conditions to work united. I think this argument is more coherent because includes the economic influences. If the economy is weak in a country is related to decisions made by the government. Even though we live in a time where the idea of free market and capitalism is highly applied by states, it is also truth that the states have an influential role in the economy, choosing policies that improve or decrease their economic growth. Even further, institutions are created to “reduce uncertainty by stablishing a stable (but not necessarily efficient) structure to human interaction” (North, 1990, p. 6), thus economic interaction is also a kind of behavior that must be regulated by the state through institutions which “are the humanly devised constraints” (North, 1990, p.3), thus if they are not working correctly in the economic, social, political realm is more likely to have a democracy breakdown. I think in this direction we must to understand the argument of Slater, Smith & Nair (2014) remark that the bureaucracy which
We know that democracies are common among the economically urbanized countries and rare between the very deprived ones. The reason we scrutinize this pattern is not that democracies are more probable to emerge, as a result, of economic development but that they are to a large extent more possible to survive if they occur to emerge in most urbanized countries. The paths to democracy are diverse. Indeed, they appear to follow no unsurprising pattern. But once democracy is conventional, for whatever reasons, its endurance depends on a few, easily particular, factors.
signs of democracy level shows that the United States has the best structures, just as the law of
1.There were many causes for the growth of democracy and emergence of political parties in early 19th century. To begin with, the expansion of franchise was instrumental in the growth of democracy. This occurred because certain legislatures laid back on their policies regarding who was allowed to vote. Many states started to increase white male suffrage, starting with Maryland, Indiana in 1816, Illinois in 1818, and Alabama in 1819. By the mid 1820s majority of the states had expanding voting rights to all white men, or all that paid their taxes. This is a short term cause of the growth of democracy. A long term cause of the growth of democracy was the American Revolution. The revolution helped weaken the elite power at the top of society.
Governments are formed for a reason, because of a bad society. When there is no government,
The authors worst argument is that without a large Republic, the country will not be unified. This argument is the worst because each state has it’s own priorities and problems. For
When it comes to a democracy always committing suicide, I believe it. In the letter written by John Adams, when referring to a democracy, he states, “It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself.” Unequal representation in the colonies is one reason the British government crumbled and led to The American Revolution. Today, I feel that there is an overwhelming amount of unequal representation in the United States among different races and backgrounds. In some ways, we are treating these people the same way the British treated us. We expect them to confide by our rules, and pay taxes, yet we don’t treat them equally, and in turn we oppress them. When John Adams wrote this letter, he saw the big picture. He saw how the British government ended,
In order to explain the questions of whether or not Chavez has increase or decreased democracy in Venezuela, people needs to know what is the concept of democracy. Due to the fact that democracy is different in every country and that each country has a different perception or view on what democracy really is, has been very difficult to have a specific concept that fits all criteria. For some, democracy is based on how democratic institutions perform in the countries and for others is based on the majority rule. For the sake of this report I will focus on democratic institutions as a based of how democracy has decreased in Venezuela through out Chavez regime.
10.In F. D. R.’s Common Wealth Address (1932) he discusses the problems with government and their solutions starting with the problem that a majority of the men who created national government were more than not, cruel in how they set things up. The solution is that while they were cruel, they set up central government, which was a safe haven for the people. The central government kept out national government to a point on certain issues such as civil disputes, war and keeping the peace. The national government by many was also thought to only benefit the few and many of those who founded it to keep the balance of power just the central governments were also key. The creation of the state or central government balanced the power against the national government Another problem that was foreseen in the government was the belief that popular government was dangerous and unfeasible. Government could be a great or awful thing and protecting people from government in firing on their rights and becoming an awful thing was Jefferson in the rights that needed to be set. His first rights included those under the name “personal competency” and property rights with these right people to an extent could live their life the way they see fit, but still needed the government in order to protect those rights and to make sure other powers or people, including the government itself could not infringe upon them. The government was set to not take people 's rights, but to give and protect them,
X. When the Second Party System collapsed, the Whig Party was no longer influential and the Democratic Party was divided. This resulted in the Whigs losing power and many of them joining the Republican Party. The Democrats had divided into two sections, the North and South (pro-slavery and pro-popular sovereignty). The collapse of the Party System allowed the Republican Party to step in a take power/control. The Republican Party had a lot of support from the Northerners mainly due to Lincoln's goal to end the spread of slavery. Many people favored Lincoln and he won the election.
In his argument on the universal value of democracy Amartya Sen discusses the relationship between democracy and economic development. He notes that it is often claimed that nondemocratic systems are better at bringing about economic development than democratic ones. Sen disagrees with this claim. He asserts that this hypothesis is based on "very selective and limited information" (3). He admits that it is true that some disciplinarian states, like South Korea, Singapore, and postreform China, have had faster rates of economic growth than many less authoritarian ones, like India, Jamaica, and Costa Rica (3). However, he points out that this very selective evidence cannot be used to establish the general hypothesis that nondemocratic systems are better at bringing about economic development (3). "There is no convincing evidence that authoritarian governance and the suppression of political and civil rights are
The one problem is that the constitution has no statements regarding the dangers that factions pose to us as a nation despite all the improvements that have been made to the democratic system.
For all of history there has existed the struggle between the strong and the weak. The establishment of government gives the power to a particular group to decide the amount of freedom the majority is allowed, however, though not ideal it provides necessary order. The benefits of security that limitations on freedom provides must be balanced with the individual's pursuit of happiness for citizens to be content. To prevent the governed majority from destabilizing the rulers and seeking power, the government will oppress political and personal freedom of thought. In result, the majority will live under the illusion of contentment and not wish to revolt; those enlightened to the idea that the government should be ruled by the governed, would associate happiness only with ignorance and consequently seek freedom.
Democracy is a unique type of government, and the purpose of this essay is to illustrate the strengths and weaknesses that a democratic government provides. I will detail that many components of this type of society are both strengths and weakness as each component has beneficial aspects as well as unavoidable pitfalls.
government control to positively influence society. When a society can trust and rely on state
The author has been able to fulfill the target of the book, which is to test and answer the questions raised by critics through the provision of evidence of the reason no democracy exists at the present. The author presents the arguments in a chronological way that gives a better understanding of the past, today, and prospective future of democracy. The root of the present democracy is stated in the book and lays the basis of the other arguments in the book. Dahl argues that there are conditions that any state should attain in order for it to be considered as a democratic