POLS 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Liberal Democracy, Comparative Politics, Party System
14 Dec 2013
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Macpherson: the holy grail of comparative politics is the search for a new democracy. Cb searched for clues in under developed countries for a new liberal democracy. Because it"s a world where community comes first and where. This communitarian democracy is hoped to develop once the countries shed the imprints of colonialism. 1960s: former colonies adopt a one-party system. These parties in power label themselves as national movements. These one party states appear to have elements of organic statist ideology. 3) obedience should be owed to one party. Have election, but always the same winners. Have opposition but it doesn"t seem to matter. Have embraced all things we have deemed problematic. 1) lack of sources of political opposition (economic) No economic basis for antagonistic social classes= no strong political opposition. Therefore limited sources of effective opposition makes it easy or one-party states to emerge (hyper nationalism) 2) independence was made on the basis of nationalism (mass movements)
