POLI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Progressive Tax, On Liberty, Serfdom
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Link between modern-age and ideology: what is an ideology, main western ideologies. Principle is about everybody and not just about the prince or philosopher king. Seek to control the economy: main modern western ideologies, response to events or response to other ideologies, liberalism (enlightenment era, rooted in individualism. French revolution 1789: national assembly arranged from left to right. (arranged by how much there should be radical change compared to conservative) Supporter of revolution on left, supporter of kings on right. Left - bigger government, greater expenditure on welfare programs, more redistribution of income: right - smaller government, less involvement into income redistribution. Left - fast: right - slow, degree to which market should be regulated and income redistributed. Left - greater intervention to protect rights: right - less intervention. Left - what are the underlining causes of a problem rather than criminalization: right - advocate enforcement aspects of government intervention.
