POL 507 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Haitian Revolution, Atlantic Revolutions, Sovereign People
17 Mar 2020
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March 2, 2020: explore how the information communication technologies have become a tool in modern politics; Look at the role of social media played as mechanism of political change during thearab spring and other earlier examples; and: review the impact of the internet on barack obama"s first presidential campaign. Revolutions and democracy: the french revolution [alongside the american war of independence and the haitian slave revolt, which occurred around the same period and are generally referred to by historians as the atlantic. Revolutions ], saw the creation of a class of people who pressed for their interests to be reflected in political decisions: the french revolution solidified the new identity of citizen . Decisions were no longer to be made based on prejudice, faith or entrenched ideas. Instead, they should be arrived at by subjecting positions to the double tests of rational argument and empirical evidence: the word public" came to have a few interrelated meanings.
