Geog4712 Week 6 Recitations O’Loughlin compare Lipset’s requisites for democratization with Rustow’s Compare formal democracy with liberal democracy.x Explain the differences in democratic transitions and diffusion in Central Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Define liberal democracy and substantive democracy General map of global distribution of democracy Huntington 3 waves – dates and locations Define democratic peace hypothesis and criticism of it Role of regional location in promoting or retarding democracy q. What factors underlie the spread of democracy? q. What factors promote stable democracies q. What are some of the concerns about the new wave of democratic countries? q. The democratic trend since the 1990s highlights a strong trend especially important to geographers, explain. What factors influence these trends? q. What influence does the US have in transitions in developing countries?Secor: “socio-spatial regime of veiling in Turkey” – rules, effects Citizenship rights – in public v private spaces (parallels with the US?) Governmentality (Foucault) Political Islam Ataturkism – secular Islam -> Kemalist state Q. What are (some of) the goals of Islamist movements? Q. What have post-modernity and Islamist movements in common? Q. How did the headscarf issue become such a political one?? Q. Is Turkey a procedural, liberal or substantive democracy (on the basis of this
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