BREE 420 Lecture 1: CANS 406 Jan 30-Feb 1
25 May 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
CANS 406
Seminar – January 30, 2018
Populism
Liberalism
- Individual rights and freedoms
- Secularism/church-state separation
- Rule of law
- Constitutionalism
Democracy
- Representation
- Popular sovereignty
o People vote
o People rule
- Free/fair elections
- Fallibility
Neutral state
- Impartial to how people live life
- Neutral with respect to good
- Division of power, checks/powers
o Judiciary
Representation
- Judgements
o Simplify pluralism
- Party system
o Vehicle for collaboration
o Ppl hate the party system, but they’re maybe useful!
Pluralism
- Values
- Demographic
o Fact
- Ideological, fundamental differences
- Multicultural
- Tolerate vs respect
- As a virtue→celebrate, normative
Prof says: this system is declining, in disrepute
Why?
- Failure of accountability
- Impatience→technocracy (EU, avoid Hitler)
