POLI 1100 Lecture : Democracy and related issues of power and justice.docx
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Dahl"s on democracy and related issues of power and justice: identify and explain dahl"s five criteria for a democratic process, effective participation. Everyone must have equal or effective opportunities to make their voices known: voting equality, enlightened understanding. All citizens can participate in democratic decision making, but we might not have enlightened understanding (understanding of the proposed policies) We need a real understanding about these policies and how they affect us; if we don"t have an understanding, we don"t know what we"re voting for. If we lack understanding, we aren"t a democracy: control of the agenda. Members should know and take part in the political agenda. The electoral systems in canada/us don"t work out in the best way (eg. In the past years, only prominent parties put forward were liberals and conservatives) Citizens should have equal opportunity and control of the political agenda, or support agendas, as a form of self governing.
