Political Science 2137 Study Guide - Final Guide: World Trade Organization, Global Governance, Adaptive Management
31 Jan 2014
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Liberal democracy = dominate political system in the western world. Effective environmental problem-solving is democratic and open, not administrative and authoritarian. Liberal democracy is just ad addicted to permanent economic growth as is capitalism, and so equally unsustainable. Mark sagoff: the allocation and distribution of resources. Few students would visit mineral king valley before its development of disney. On these ethical and cultural grounds, and in spite of consumer preferences, the students opposed the disney plan to develop mineral king. Public was so opposed that congress act in 1978 prohibited it. Not all policy issues allow neat separation between issues of allocation and issues of distribution. You can"t discover fundamental truths about man/civil society/the state with efficient & equality trade-offs. Social regulations are based in public values and are found in legislation. Social rate of discount: used to determine how we should take the interest of future consumers into account.
