In your journal entry for this week, make sure that you highlight the following “journal props” as well any other materials you learned or gleaned from the lecture notes and readings. They are provided to you simply as “guidelines” to direct your focus on the subject matter. You should follow the journal “props” as indicated, then add on other materials gleaned from your assigned readings as well as the lecture. Please do not confine yourself, but you need to incorporate as much detail as possible to convince the instructor/reader that you have read and understood the materials for the week. If you have any questions, please let me know:
- What is the role of “institutional choice” to the democratic process?
- What are the major distinctions between presidential and parliamentary systems; and how do both conform to democratic principles?
- Explain the various processes for laying down the “institutional foundations” for durable democracies [These may be the most basic things often taken for granted in the broader society, such as obeying road signals and speed limits, or standing in the queue at the post office].
- Does ‘rule of law’ matter (whether one is right or wrong) for enduring democracies?
- In what ways can regime transitions foster or undermine democracies?
- Drawing upon historical/contemporary analogies, would you say that world democracies are in a state of evolutionary crises, stability, growing pains, crisis of an inability to meet the challenge of rising expectations, all are overstated and none of these? Why or why not? Take a position and defend it.
Requirements: 6 questions

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