POL214Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Big L, Liberal Democracy, List Of Civilisations In The Culture Series
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Topic: political culture: we start with a review of the fundamental values underlying the canadian political system, summed up in the phrase. Political culture. : dyck defines political culture as: For now, we will focus on small l liberalism: as a result, at the most fundamental level, the english- speaking liberal democracies are very similar. What are these liberal democratic values: all of these societies share important and distinctive values such as: _the right of the accused to face their accusers in an open court. In british north america, french canada was incorporated into this framework after the conquest in 1759. In the us, it took a civil war in the 1860s to abolish slavery in the south - a fundamental affront to liberal values: within this broad universe of liberal political culture, there are of course national differences. In canada, there is a long tradition of discussing our political culturein relation to that of the united states.
