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Questions for Class 11: Feb 23, 2010:
- What is a "black hole" state and what is the "freedom deficit"
that the Arab Human Development reports describe? Here, by the
way, on
BBC
Feb 15, 2008 is a recent Arab League effort to curb satellite
cable TV like Al Jazeera (though the Qatar representative
abstained from their otherwise unanimous decision).
Here,
is how Jordan, one of the reputedly more "liberal" Arab states, is
trying to treat electronic media.
- What is the Washington Consensus and what has happened to it?
Here are
some
of the efforts moving
toward
a new Barcelona
Consensus and back to Washington Confusion? (cf Dani Rodrik
2006
article) Quick
Williamson
rejoinder (2008) to
Rodrik and the
Spence Report
- What, according to Henry and Springborg, is a "bunker state"
and how is it distinguished from other authoritarian regimes run
by former soldiers - the "bully regimes"?
- Why might monarchies have relatively more privately owned
businesses and real estate than their neighbors who got rid of
their kings and other traditional rulers?
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Main page - Feb. 22, 2010
- Department
of Government,
College of
Liberal Arts, University of
Texas at Austin.
- Questions, Comments, and Suggestions to
chenry@mail.utexas.edu