POL201Y1 Lecture Notes - Athenian Democracy, Representative Democracy, Polyarchy

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Thin and thick democracy: democratic government has risen since 89, freedom house, assigns rating to countries based on how democratic they are, more freedom means more democracy. If indicator of democracy is elections, the democracy is a dichotomous variable (you either have democracy or you don"t: definition of democracy. The pointed democracy is to find the common good. Subjectively/ objectively/ mathematically identifiable condition of society: common will. The will to achieve the common good (the common desire or purpose) www. notesolution. com: will of the people good. There is no common good because people have different interests and would want to maximize different things. Every individual has different inclinations and stand in different relations to the structures of power. In short, there is no objectively identifiable common good: schumpeter theory of democracy: Schumpeter focuses on elites and elections: t h ick de mocracy (concepts, pr inc iples and procedures, concepts, public realm.

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