POLI 100 Lecture 5: Democracy
19 Feb 2019
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What is democracy: individual freedoms and equality (rule of law) are central. Freedom of speech right to protest (that is attacking/offensive: a contested concept. Elections exist in both democratic (canada) and non-democratic countries (i. e. china: associated with: elections, consent of the ruled, institutions built around regular and peaceful change of government, political power is distributed the wider the better. Democracy is built on the assumption that power corrupts: accountability is a must. What is special about it: good governance does a good job of governing countries. Laws, rules, regulations made by the people" and changed to re ect popular opinions and wants not private interests. Jack lively: 7 possibilities" of democracy (4: only rst 4 are levels of democracy; rest aren"t democracy. The last 3 aren"t enough to constitute a democracy: all govern: everyone involved in making laws, deciding policy, administrating governmental issues.
