POG 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Polyarchy, Ideal Type, Social Contract

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POG 240
• Professor: Daniel Rubenson

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Tutorial 3: discuss, using examples, dahl"s procedural view of democracy. Procedural institutions, part of a state/government, very important for government, judicial system, branches of government, if these don"t exist things get disorganized. Substantive is the outcome of democracy and procedural is the institution within democracy (parliament, branches of state) From outside it is easy to see a dictatorship and democracy, democracy is the way power is shared equally, people have a voice. That is not how power is shared, minorities and other groups in society need a voice, they feel they don"t have a say and they aren"t considered. More power you share, the better it will be. Democracy historically was not viewed as popular as it is today, it was seen as. Philosophers such as plato found that appointing a ruler/rulers should not be based on people but rather their expertise and intelligence.