Thursday, September 18, 2008

assignement 1

In fact, pure system does exits; however , some exceptions can be made for some models. The authoritarian model tends to be a dictatorial model where media serve the interest of the ruled party. Propaganda and other tools are used for the praise of the ruler. The media system is controlled by the person in power. Censorship and control of the media is a habit within the authoritarian model. We may cover this model with a false libertarian model by giving the impression that the regime allowed some liberties. In fact, even these liberties are controlled but from far away. In addition, despite the fact that there is a degree of freedom people would never explore this freedom since they would be afraid from repercussion on what they may say or do. For example, Tunisia is a police state where liberties are secretly taking from people but publicly encouraged by the government. Consequently, some may argue that the balance between a degree of freedom and a degree of authoritarianism cannot cohabitate.
The cohabitation between authoritarianism and developmental model cannot exist. In fact, a dictatorship tends to limit the knowledge of the people in order to rule. While acquiring more and more knowledge people would realize that they have the right to claim their civil rights; therefore, a revolution might happened. That is why dictator or superior power tries to keep undeveloped people undeveloped. In the case of morocco, it is totally different. The monarchy indeed is not a dictator regime as some may claim; in fact it serves and seeks for the development of the people. The role of the monarchy in morocco is very important since the stability of the country lays on it. If the military coup of 1971 and 1972 were successful, authoritarianism and development model could not cohabitate. In fact, the authoritarian models would be the dominant one. Concerning the control of media, during these last few years a huge and tremendous development of the Moroccan media has gain a more and more freedom. Unlike some countries such as UAE or Qatar, or even Syria media in morocco can deal with the king activities, criticize what happened in morocco from an academic and analytic point of view.
The cohabitation between libertarianism and developmental models is an important one. In fact, the two models can cohabitate and interact with each other. The two models are in some how interdependent. The libertarianism encourage the free flow of information which allow the increase of more knowledge more information and hence more development. the development model can be consider as a medicine that correct the mistakes of the libertarianism model while dealing with some important issues such poverty , drugs , diseases. In the case of morocco the development model is very important since this country is in need day per day of facing many challenges and dealing with many socio-economic problems

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