POLB50Y3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Southeast Asia, South America
5 Aug 2018
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Democracy is a robust and powerful idea: All citizens are equal before the law. Everyone should have access to the same as everyone else. Discursively we connect democracy - as a standard of evaluation to many forms of social life. Historical lesson: democracy is neither inevitable, nor self sustaining, nor latent in our modes of life. A sense that everyone in that we can speak. A sense that the voice is equal. We most commonly associate the beginnings with ancient greece. Tribal peoples and societies probably had democratic practices. With significant contributions by greece and rome. But these societies faced perennial problems democracy: corruption and pervasive stratification - gender, slavery! A lack of administrative innovation, including local and national administration. After rome - democracy disappears for a thousand years. But the renaissance and the modern era, especially under the rie of the monarchy, the conditions where democracy could be reinvented, emerge,
