POL214Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Amartya Sen, Udra, Glossary Of Video Game Terms
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Germany when they elected mussolini and hitler, respectively. The new authoritarianism: notion of historical inevitability societies are determined by their past, their civilization and their biology (hobbes, enlightened despotism preferable to democracy because the masses require protection from themselves. In the future, democracy may erode without us knowing: government and media will become increasingly dominated by corporations. Democracy as a universal value- amartya sen: sen considers the most important event in the 20th century, ponders european empires, two world wars, rise and fall of fascism, Nazism and communism, shift of economic balance from the west to asia: chooses the rise of democracy. Emergence of democracy as the preeminently acceptable form of governance. : many different events strengthened and shaped the democracy we now know- the magna carta, french and american revolutions, widening of the franchise in. Europe and north america in the 19th century.
