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Limited Government Essay

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* Limited government: Checks and balances, and constitutional individual rights. -Liberal Democracies (Bollen and Paxton, 2000): Democratic Rules and Political Liberties. Its rules are elected and exercise power in a limited manner. -Liberal Autocracies or dictablandas (O’Donnell and Schmitter, 1986): Alternatively, unelected rulers may exercise power in a limited fashion, which results in liberal autocracies. * Absolute government: No significant constraints to the power of rulers. -Illiberal Democracies or democraduras (Diamond and Schmitter, 1986): If rulers are competitively elected but exercise power with few limitations. -Authoritarianisms (Linz,2000): If unelected rulers exercise power with few or no limitations. A Subnational …show more content…

Procedures to meassure: Access to power 1. Contestation and Inclusiveness: How the government responds towards the demands of its citizens, either as individuals or in groups regarding elections or governmental decisions. The level of contestation depends on the level of fairness of elections, freedom of expression, and Freedom to form/join organizations. On the other hand we have inclusiveness which means the rights associated with political competition. -Federal Electoral Code of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, where it contains the rights and obligations for parties, government and citizens in terms of electoral times. It guarantees the right of civil participation, political competitions, or fair elections. e (http://www.legisver.gob.mx/leyes/LeyesPDF/ELECTORAL150701.pdf ). 1.- Electoral violations: "Elements of the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC) detained the ex worker of Cuernavaca, Maria Asunción Díaz Flores, for "electoral tourism" practices in favor of the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI) in Veracruz, during the 2010 electoral campaign." (AN, …show more content…

3.- Civil participation: "In the year 2000 it was published the law number 76 of Referendum, Plebiscite and Popular Initiative, in it, it is stabished that the aim of law is to regulate the constitutional norms relative to the participation of the referendum, plebiscite and popular iniciative. For some scholars of the theme, it is a law of citizen participation, it seems to me too limited to be a law of citizen participation since it does not recognize explicitly the human right to citizen participation" (Dominguez Canseco: Plumas Libres, 1/04/2014) . 4.- Civil Participation: Civil participation of a 65% in Veracruz in the year 2012 (INE, 2012). On the other hand, Electoral National Institute (INE) is concerned about the poor civil participation. (Veracruzanos.info,

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