POLI 212 Lecture Notes - Petal, Indifference Curve, Ideal Point
6 Jun 2012
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Majoritarian: it is not about how to accommodate differences/identities. Liberal: about how class comes to be expressed in political regimes and public policy. The classic cases with majoritarian and liberal democracies are anglo. Continental: mixed, not as well defined by esping-anderson. Continental democracies are a residual category, diffuse category. Classic cases of consociational and social democracy are. They could be called the anglo american cases. This is the case of the uk, settler societies with a shared history with the british empire. Zealand, canada, australia and the united states- they seem to be majoritarian (their political institutions are) but in terms of welfare regimes it is the liberal type. One thing is the westminster system (majoritarianism itself), and they begin as dominions in the british empire. In terms of esping-anderson"s argument, they share a trade union movement that is relatively weak.
