Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Elitism, Corporatism, Direct Democracy
28 Dec 2017
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Weber on legitimacy: domination + legitimacy = authority. Since weber: democracy also legitimates, popular consent and participation, facilitates peaceful reconciliation of competing interests, feedback mechanism. Legitimacy in united kingdom: legal, constitutional and democratic, democracy is crucial, always with a touch of tradition, a traditional, sentimental attachment that (cid:498)no legislature can manufacture in any people(cid:499) (cid:523)walter bagehot(cid:524, charisma has helped at critical moments. Crisis of legitimacy: political regimes can weaken or fall based on loss of legitimacy. In democracies: if demands overwhelm institutions, if the needs of capital trump the needs of the people. Democracy what is it: a contested term because multi-faceted, many varieties there are different ways to institutionalize a democracy, popular sovereignty consent: not enough, 1. Liberal democracy: the winning form, simplified: participation, competition, rule of law, countries seem to have settled on this, good basis for empirical research.
