Week 7 Day 1: GIANT STEPS TOWARD DEMOCRACY
PSCI0202-s19-Week-7-Day-1 [no day 1 for fall 2019= SKIP]
Consider the following:
- How did African authoritarian rulers concentrate state power during the first three decades following independence?
- What are the main factors behind African democratic transitions in the 1990s? (which readings help you with this question?)
- What would one anticipate the quality of African democracies?
- How would one go about assessing this democratic quality?
Week 7 Day 2: REFLECTIONS ON DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA (OR DEMOCRACY, AFRICA’S WAY)
Consider the following:
- What is democracy?
- What key values are embedded in democracy?
- What are the fundamental principles of democracy?
- What are the signs of an undemocratic system?
- Why is democracy desirable? What are its benefits?
- What conditions must be in place for democracy to thrive? (necessary / sufficient)
- What are some threats to African democracy?
- Which speaker(s) pushed your thinking the most? Why?