POLSCI 1G06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Liberal Democracy, White-Collar Crime
21 Sep 2016
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>some were scared it would lead to radicals, it didn"t happen in a peaceful way, it happened because of a struggle; happened through negotiation. >process towards full liberal democracy has been violent historically (revolutions in u. k, u. s. a, transformations, documents signed in times of invasions/wars/revolutions) >democracy was something to be struggled for; it wasn"t just handed down. 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 the force determines outcomes, has often been prefaced by violence. In u. s. a, there were restrictions as to who could vote historically: people of colour, women at times. In britain, such restrictions meant only 3% of population could vote; not until 1928 in britain were the entire population able to vote. Less than 80% of canadian population could vote at that time.
