PSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Scandinavia, Comparative Politics
22 Sep 2016
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Clear and consistent rules define membership in electorate and universal suffrage is established: contestation- Democracy and nation-state: recent challenges: democracies should accommodate great sociocultural and multinational diversity into one state, old wisdom: Every nation should be a state (national self determination: many democracies do not conform to this idea. Three types of state: very multinational states: canada (quebec), spain (basque, Territorially based strong groups seeking independence in name of nationalism/self determination: second group (us and switzerland) No territorial claim by politically significant group: third group (japan, france, scandanavia) Building nation state and democracy reinforces each other: vision of modern democratic state. Sweden, japan, portugal as ideal types of unitary nation state: if not sociocultural differences, strong sense of community. No issues with inclusive democracy: if a polity is more diverse greater difficulties careful decisions by leaders, routes to take when new people come: Social pressure/coercion and prevent emergence of alternative identities.
