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Democracy, - Coggle Diagram

- - - - encourages groups to cooperate/negotiate
    - - improves quality of life and performance of social institutions
      - encourages stronger trust among others
      - increased interaction = bigger sense of self = think more about collective group rather than individual needs
      - decline in social capital
        
        more women working, less time for social capital opportunities
        
        television makes our communities wider and shallower
- - - - must require a balance, too much competition is bad
    - - protects the poor, otherwise famines would occur
    - - corruption/particularism
        
        if you're close to power, you have more influence
      - not the most efficient (administratively speaking); lack in governability sometimes
        
        Authoritarianism (and benefits?)
        
        one ruler/decision maker; faster decisions
        
        less corruption?
        
        civil society aims to democratize authoritarian states
        
        better control over state, "more power" in global affairs
      - economies not necessarily better
      - not always more stable, orderly
  - - - generally, human rights rating is higher in Western democracies