POL112H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Illiberal Democracy, Pegida, Liberal Democracy
12 Mar 2020
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One reason for liberal democracy triumph is that there is no coherent alternative to it: communism had failed. Islamic theocracy had little support outside middle east. China"s capitalism under communism couldn"t be emulated by other countries: liberal democracies full of checks and balances that are meant to stop any one party from amassing to much power and to reconcile the interests of different groups. Translates popular views into public policy: governments in north america and western europe are coming apart and seeing rise of illiberal democracy (democracy without rights) Illiberal democracy: where most people favor subordinating independent institutions to whims of executive. Likely to happen where political systems is skewed in favor of elite that elections rarely translate popular views into public: a liberal is someone who is committed to basic values like freedom of speech, separation of powers, right. He dominated country"s politics: older far-right movements openly glorified fascism and advocated abolishing democracy (pegida and.
