POLS 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Authoritarianism, Liberal Democracy, Statism
18 Sep 2013
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Therefore this equals the way to take down democracy, by creating a populist movement: then he was able to take down the senate. 1848: nephew of napoleon (napoleon iii) Pretended to be a friend of the poor. The poor thus supported him and thus he was able to get elected. Then he became the emperor: bonopartism (provides a mean for those who are not as strong to rule by force, it is ultimately peaceful because it quiets down the conflicts in society) Process by which the dominant class cannot control by force and thus it is forced to use the support of the poor instead. Hypocritical and a lie because it is essentially an effort for the dominant class to maintain its rule. Means that there is a strongman who sets himself up as a paternalistic figure to rule the country. Not a politician, he is someone above political meddling.
