PSCI 2101 Lecture Notes - Hosni Mubarak, Planned Economy, Relative Deprivation
7 Jul 2014
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Political parties are a mechanism to address political concerns in a democracy. As a society becomes more socially/economically developed, there is more likely to be a democracy. An educated citizenry demands more freedom and this freedom is necessary for the economy to do well. Voting can be self-interested traditionally workers vote left for unions, businessmen vote conservative, etc. New generation of citizens interested in more than economic issues like their parents more concerned with value issues: this is postmaterialism. Materialism = defining yourself politically in terms of economic wellbeing. Postmaterialism is when citizens are more interested about their life, community, individual expression (women"s rights, environment, peace movement, etc). Younger generation now does politics differently than the older generation very prominent in arab spring, occupy, etc. Not many examples to draw from revolutions are just more common at certain periods of history than others.
