Group work

Question one

How do states vary

◦ Age

◦ When it was officially created

◦ Geographical size

◦ Location

◦ Form of government

◦ Level of development, rich or poor.

Name at least 3 international political actors other than states

◦ International organisations e.g UN, world bank, EU

◦ Terror groupd

◦ Transaction cooperations

How is the power of the state limited

◦ By growing international interdependency

◦ Interconnections

◦ Collective arrangements and agreements for example consistutions

What is globalisation

◦ A trend of increasingly forming a single system

What is the difference between representative and participatory democracy

◦ Representative democracy- limited access to choosing their leaders while

participatory , directly participate in political decisions and policies.

How can we group democracies based on indicators

◦ Full democracies- 8 to 10-Finland and Norway

◦ Flawed Democracies-7.9 to 6 Russia

◦ Hybrid regimes- 4 to 5.9

◦ Authoritarian regimes- Afghanistan Taliban regime

What are the 4 types of Theories or relationships between states and society

◦ State supremacy where the states is dominant over the society, e.g Saudi Arabia

◦ State Dependency where the state is dependent on the society, economically,

socially and politically
 ◦ Interdependency where the state and the society are together, coordinating
economically and socially and politically

◦ Separation and Autonomy, the government works by its self as well as the society

6 What are some of the citizens' rights

⁃ Freedom of speech ant the press

⁃ Freedom of religion and conscience

⁃ Freedom of assembly and association

⁃ Right to equal protection of the law

⁃ Right to due process of law and to fair trial

⁃ Property rights to land, goods and money

8 Who measures democracies?

-Non-profit organizations like

Freedom House

Which are the best known democracy indexes?

⁃ Freedom House Indexes

⁃ Economist Intelligence Units, Democracy IndexesDemocracy

⁃ Polity Indexes

⁃ Polyarche and Contestation

Scales

⁃ Unified Democracy Scores

⁃ Perceptions of Electoral Integrity

⁃ Project

11 How has the number of democracies changed in the last decades?

⁃ The number of democratic stated in the world has expanded since the mid-1970s.

⁃ More recently, however, several scores suggest a worsening of democracy in many

countries.

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What Economic policies were abdoned

◦ Free market economy was abandoned

What were the 18th and 19th centuries like

They were limited to night watchmen basically meaning they were limited to keeping their citizens
safe from crime as well as keeping their national territory

How did they change as they moved towards freedom and Democracy

◦ They faced an ever growing population demand and the need to strengthen national
identity

◦ Began providing public services and health

◦ Became active agents of economic growth and development

WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN pUBLIC SPENDING AND THE LENGTH OF A COUNTRY BEING A
DEMOCRCY

THE LONGER THE COUNTRY IS DEMOCRACTIC, THE MORE PUBLIC SPENDING

MOST DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ARE DEMORCACIES