POLSCI 3VV3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Joseph Schumpeter, Elitism
6 Feb 2018
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From the 19th century to the 20th century. Almost no one after pericles has been in favour of democracy, until you hit the. The vocabulary we ve spent two months figuring out seems oddly ill-equipped to describe democracy. We have a theory of what democracy is (classical understanding of democracy) that doesn t fit the reality at all. Held is pretty good on this kind of theory of democracy competitive elitism or democratic elitism. A way of thinking about democracy that came about in the second quarter of the 20th century. A distinct school of thought that is often taken for granted in political science. Michels: iron law of oligarchy a theory that comes in the second half of the 20th century once a lot of western countries and communist countries are progressing towards oligarchy. What democracy actually means in the modern world is choosing your elites (not regularly, but from time to time).
