POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - French Revolution, Weimar Republic, Social Democracy
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These countries have a different mind set than the west: Liberal democracy and crisis: 19th centaury was the high one. The principal of liberal democracy was so appealing that it developed in places where the base for it was not present. Hungary faked it (it was corrupt), which led to hay day/ there was a crisis because of the corruption as there were false election votes. Example of how liberal democracy functioned in the 3rd world. People started to question whether liberal democracy really worked in those type of places. The left became about inequality as the rich tried to control the poor. The right believed that there was a world hierarchy but the wrong people ran it: was run by inferiors and they rejected the worst form of hierarchy and hierarchy of natural order was restored (germany) Liberal democracy and the working class: extension of the franchise. Social democracy rose and led to electoral socialism.