Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: John Stuart Mill, Totalitarianism, French Revolution
4 Oct 2016
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One-party rule: fascism, communism modern phenomena. Only happened most recently because the are ambitious, and needed the power of a fully developed modern economy: totalitarianism state power used to subordinate and transform society. Very big difference between african single party and european single party mainly attributed to a lack of resources. Theocratic rule (an attempt to rule based on a religion: fusion of religious and political leadership, resurgent since late 20th century. Religion (people were god"s representative on this planet - that"s how they are given this power: saudi arabia - religion is a guiding principle in the ruling power. Not necessarily the only value, but plays a very big part. Ideology (people believe the regime is the government of the proletariat :) ) Anything measurable the regime accomplishes that shows they are making progress in society) Democracy: plebiscites - napoleon bonaparte [french revolution introduced many important ideas (sovereignty no more monarchy). Introduced plebiscites (referendum) to allow people to vote.
