POL101Y1 Lecture : October 3rd 2011polisci.docx
19 Apr 2012
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We take democracy for granted the apartheid in south africa: political, economic and social system, example of racial segregation, south african blacks were discriminated against, 80% of the population (blacks) weren"t allowed to vote, continued until 1994. Would you go to prison to fight for or defend democracy: in 1975 only 29% of countries in the world had democracies, in 2010 there was a massive increase in democracies, raising to 59% As society is modernizing, they will then become politically modernize. In democratic states, the people(or demos) is sovereign in oligarchies on the other hand, the few have the position . Polyarchy is a political order in which citizenship is extended to a relatively high proportion of adults and the rights of citizenship include the opportunity to oppose the vote out the highest officials in the government . Being able to say what you think without getting punished for it.
