GNED 1303 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Alexis De Tocqueville, Town Meeting, Montesquieu
29 Oct 2016
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Your dahl readings this week focus on the question of institutions those practical arrangements that actually keep a democracy operating. 85-6 as well as 90-1 (and make sure you can define his famous term (cid:498)polyarchy(cid:499)). need to have political parties. On p. 98 dahl makes a forceful argument for why our modern democracies. Chapter focuses on the political institutions necessary for a democratic country. Every actual democracy has always fallen short of the democratic criteria described in part 2 and shown in figure 4 (p. 38) The word democracy, in this context, refers to both a goal or ideal and to an actuality that is only a partial attainment of the goal. Reader has to be able to distinguish between the words democracy, democratically, democratic government, democratic country and so on. These institutions do not arrive in a country at once, the last two are latecomers colonial period in the 17th and 18th centuries representative democracy from all earlier forms.
