POLSCI 2H03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: September 11 Attacks, Continuous Production, Civil Society
10 Sep 2014
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Content: what is democracy, globalization and democracy: challenges in terms of democratization; 3 major challenges. Based on alternative notions of democracy being that of: cosmopolitan and deliberative. What is democracy: rule by the people. Equal involvement of citizens in governance processes. People enjoy full autonomy in their democratic activities. Open and transparent fashion of policy making and policy implementation; being accountable. Responsibility as well as rights; mixture of both; ind have freedom but limited when opposing on others freedom. Popular control over governmental policies and decisions, and a system of fundamental rights & responsibilities: democracy as a process of constitutional, representative, and inclusive decision making, a form of governance of the modern state. Globalization and democracy: globalization and democracy beyond territoriality. Shifts in governance with globalization: polycentric world order. Multiscalar (from ind supranational; refer to picture) & diffuse governance and democracy: globalization severely suffers from lack of democracy****. On the contrary, it makes democratic deficit more apparent.
