POL101Y1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Liberal Democracy, Illiberal Democracy, Presidential System
Document Summary
End of mankind"s ideological evolution and the universalization of western liberal democracy as the final form of human government. Suggest that democracy is taking over the world just as christianity once did. Suggests that americans exaggerated the possibility of human perfectibility. Marx"s teleologoical theory: primitive communism, slave society, feudalism, capitalism, socialism, communism final stage. It is the end point and final form: democracy is the highest point of human political organization; the endpoint of history, democracy is good, widespread, here to stay. Ex. countries like singapore and pakistan have stability. Many countries are not ready to have freedom. Dictator ships control and protect people, prevents riots, and are good at producing prerequisites for democracy: why, democracies are value neutral. Transforms the will of the majority into government. Can lead to good or bad governments for instance hitler was elected by the widespread of bad people: democracy emerges successfully only as a capstone to other social and economic achievements.
