POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Bowling Alone, Social Democracy, Industrial Revolution
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Making democracy work: what democracy means? ( e. g of apartheid in south africa) 1) average earings: black people: 45$; white people: 700$ 2) white and black people were allowed together; vote; 3) democracy has become a global phenomenon twenty years ago; it is still a very new term; democracy; 4) democracy maintained the global peace; democracy does not fight: democracy"s virtue: 1) liberty: freedom; rights of association, press; speech; 2) equality: through the right to vote, wealth and gender difference do not matter; 3) rule of law: equality is protected by law; (constitution) Democracy is rule of law; not rule of dictator; 4) pluralism1: it is the core principle of democracy; Democracy is about the election: the ability to vote government out or in; Why democracy is unique: losers never out of the campaign; Institutional : compete again and again; and never know who will win; 1) democracy is very new in the world; it experiences a dynamic process;
