POL 2101 Lecture Notes - Cabinet Collective Responsibility, Individual Ministerial Responsibility, Parliamentary Sovereignty

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 2101
• Professor: Gordon Digiacomo

Document Summary

Professors priorities for being elected for pm: 1- enviornment 2- inequality. Democracy: system of governance in which ppl rule. either directly or threw representives. political system based on principle tha governance require assents of all partciapation. Minimal conditions: fair elections, right to vote, right to run for office, right to express them selves without fear, right to form independant associations. Some politcal scientists think that this is not enough. Liberal democracy can have several attributes = gov follow the rule of law, ppl are elected periodicly, free and fair elections, All the democracies in the world have constitutions. Constitutions is the set of binding norms and rules that provide the legitimate of exerviced power. Civil society groups: humain rights groupes, studnt group not always political but have meanings. Political engagement is a big theme in this course. Civil engagement: joining groups, clubs, civicly engaged, civil goes with citizens ppl active in their community, hockey club, debat society.