POLSCI 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: David Held, World Trade Organization, Global Governance
17 Dec 2016
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Nearly all adults now have the right to vote. There is an irony to the history of the extension of democracy: a peaceful democratic public sphere, one within which dialogue rather than force determines outcomes, has often been prefaced by violence. According to critics, despite the extension of the right to vote to almost every adult within a democratic state, modern democracy still has limitations. The electoral process is structured in such a way that the people are far removed from government. How to manage the tension between the will of the majority and the rights of the minority. 1982 canadian charter of rights and freedom unconstitutional . Marxist critique: the separation between public and. The economy is often treated as being in the private sphere. But the private economy has public effects. The private distribution of wealth has an impact on the character of the public sphere: wealth gives an unequal access to political power.
