PSCI 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Abusive Power And Control, Flight Controller, Parliamentary Sovereignty
7 Dec 2015
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Philippe c. schmitter & terry lynn karl unique system. I- democracy definition and its concepts that distinguish it as a. Norms that condition how rulers came to power. Practices that hold them accountable for their actions: making of collective norms and choices that are binding on the society and backed by state coercion, most distinctive element in democracies. Elections: democrats may agree on the inevitability of factions but they disagree about the best forms and rules for governing factional competition. They can seek to influence public policy through a variety of other intermediaries: interest associations, social movement, locality groupings . Properly assembled majority regularly makes decisions that harm some minority. Alexis de tocqueville best described the importance of independent groups. For democracy to work specific procedural norms must be followed and civic rights must be respected. 1- control over government decisions about policy is constitutionally vested in elected officials.
