POLSCI 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Global Governance, David Held, Research Question
16 Jan 2018
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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. 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. Marxist critique: the separation between public and private spheres is artificial. The economy is often treated as being in the private sphere. The private distribution of wealth has an impact on the character of the public sphere: Wealth gives an unequal access to political power. Elites both constitute government, and dominate access to it. Modern democracy is based on the assumption that the relationship between the governed/governor is a territorially limited one.
