HLSC 3P21 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Friedrich Engels, Think Tank, Liberal Democracy
1 Feb 2016
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Arguments: political perspective on think tank, any opinion should be grounded in evidence no i feel yes to evidence suggests . Can include person pronouns over passive pronouns i will argue. Websites are biased (best presentation of them) Will say non-partisan (no political party association) but this doesn"t mean they aren"t politically skewed left or right. Major policy statements: what they think about policy, find/develop research around certain policy areas. Least influence over healthy policy formation in canada governor. General of canada (more symbolic power), could be un universal declaration of human rights. Believes in personal liberty, low govnt involvement in everyday lives, restrictions on access to abortion would be best described as: Neo liberal (also take on some conservative positions, like abortion and freedom) libertarian believe in limiting govnt control in their lives, want freedom. Left wing ideology would tend to include which cluster of ideas: emphasis upon collective rights, govnt action to curb corporate power income equality.
