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THE STRUCTURE OF ILLIBERAL DEMOCRACY. ASSIGNMENTS. Capacity and Performance (5/10) Smith, ch. 8, plus Corrales and Levitsky Illiberal Democracy (5/17) Smith, ch. 10, plus Murillo and Htun What Now? (5/24) Smith, chs. 11-12 and Epilogue, plus Lagos and Dom í nguez.
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ASSIGNMENTS • Capacity and Performance (5/10) Smith, ch. 8, plus Corrales and Levitsky • Illiberal Democracy (5/17) Smith, ch. 10, plus Murillo and Htun • What Now? (5/24) Smith, chs. 11-12 and Epilogue, plus Lagos and Domínguez
THE CONCEPT OF ILLIBERAL DEMOCRACY • Free and Fair Elections + Civil Rights • Systematic Curtailment of Citizenship and Citizen Rights • Connection to “Delegative Democracy”
Journalists Killed in Latin America, 1990-1999 Country___ __ N Killings__ Colombia 36 Peru 12 Mexico 10 Brazil 8 Haiti 4 Argentina 3 Guatemala 3 Venezuela 2 Chile 1 Dominican Republic 1 Honduras 1 Paraguay 1 Total 82 Source: Committee to Protect Journalists, Attacks on the Press in 1999 (New York: CPJ, 2000), 23.
Table 10-2. Electoral Regimes and Freedom of the Press, 1990s _________________Regime____________________ Press____ Autocracy Semi-Democracy Democracy Not Free 1 5 2 Partly Free 1 26 51 Free 0 0 47 Totals 2 31 100
Political Regimes in 1999: Countries and Population N % Regime Type___ __Countries__ __Population__ Liberal Democracy 3 4.4 Illiberal Democracy 11 60.1 Illiberal Semi-Democracy 5 33.3 Autocracy 1 2.2
UNDERREPRESENTED GROUPS • Organized Labor • Women • Indigenous Peoples