POSC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: John Stuart Mill, Robert D. Putnam, Minority Rights
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Alexis tocqueville critical of the democracy of america point of view from a french aristocrat. Robert putnam bowling alone builds social capital (participation: protection of the human rights all citizens and minority rights, a rule of law, in which the laws and procedures apply equally to all citizens. Minority rights regularly change in conjunction with minority status, which is determined by location. Deliberative democracy: deliberative democracy or discursive is a form of democracy in which deliberation is central to decision-making. It is authentic deliberation not voting that is the primary source of legitimacy for the law: ex. amy gutmann and dennis thompson, favour debate optimistic that debate can transform someone"s mind. Requirements for d. d: reciprocal able to act ability to listen favour consensus among citizens, accessible expectation to reasonable and rational debate, binding reassessment only as good as the democratic decision, dynamic or provisional .
