POG 100 Lecture Notes - Economic Democracy, Democratic Consolidation, Liberal Democracy

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POG 100
• Professor: Joerg Wittenbrinck

Document Summary

Singular act of voting of the governing in the country. It is a crude act (transferring will of people into government institutions) because choices are very limited because we only have a couple choices and have to vote either yes or no for a group that we like. We cannot say, i like what they did there but i don"t like what they did there . Developed formal processes of interaction beyond elections and have an open system to try to influence the government on their own initiative. Just because we have elections does not mean we have democracy; is often times the outcome of different forms of transitions such as revolutionary struggles and has to be fought for. If there is a broad constitutional consensus (create political and lawful pathways for the country), there will be a broad general consensus amongst the society and support the ideas and policies that the constitution is making.