ECON 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Religious Denomination, Liberal Democracy, Industrial Revolution
Document Summary
Important field in modern politics hegemony of liberal democracy after wwii understand allocation of power. These traditions were controversial for a while now it is recognised that all traditions have some truth in them question is why and to which extent. History creates shocks divides (cleavages) between groups. Territorial cleavages are making a comeback over religious/class . National boundaries are less important global market > national market multinationals, international companies settle in specific areas (cities and regions); growth of tourism; skilled workers move around to work urban-rural cleavage. Centre-periphery conflict globalisation lowers the cost of secession there is a global market, Eu can still trade outside of current national market. Centre-left parties used to dominate post-wwii politics, now they are collapsing (particularly since. See class compositions of main party families in graph (slides) manual workers are now big part of radical, populist right anti-immigration worker not thinking about class anymore fear of immigration.
