POLI1042 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Joseph Nye, Liberal Democracy
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Its founders intended to bolster religion"s place in the public square. Yet at the same time, in a classic demonstration of the danger of unintended consequences, the movement has pushed a growing share of the population to opt out of religion altogether thus politics are being removed form the pulpit. A. the middle and bourgeois tend to be the majority of people in current economic climate something that marx had not expected: democracy seems to be the chosen system. B. 1. the single most serious challenge to liberal democracy in the world today comes from china, which has combined authoritarian government with a partially marke- tized economy. B. 1. a) too many human rights abuses stability will not continue: problems in the us. C. 3. fail to outright redistribute so we do it inefficiently technological advances help the fortunate few takes jobs from the lower class populism has grown on the right ~ tea party.