POLSCI 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Elite Theory, Robert A. Dahl, Social Darwinism

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 1AB3
• Professor: Todd Alway

Document Summary

We have a system that is based on putting the power in hands of the people but not too much power, limits on people. Mouseland video> black cats white cats spotted cats, mouse picked based on color not after what they were cats. Mouse came with idea and they locked him up. Canada inequality that bene ts interests of wealthy over poor, more money=more say. There is an intersection between economic and political power. To be in the political spectrum you must have connections to wealth and money, and therefore people on the outside will be in uencing the outcome (donators) We have equality in terms of voting, but do we have equal representation and in uencing. We have inequality and it is inevitable, we might want to abolish it but we cannot. We are divided, those who rule and those who are ruled, the few who hold the power and the many that we do not.