POL101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: United Kingdom European Union Membership Referendum, 2016, David Goodhart, Liberal Democracy
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Liberal democracy faces external challenges ethnonational autocracies, from regimes claiming to be based on god"s word rather than the will of the people, from the success of strong-handed meritocracy in places such as. Singapore, astonishing economic accomplishments of china"s market-leninist system. Populists who seek to drive a wedge between democracy and liberalism. Claim that liberal norms and policies weaken democracy. Etrenchment in hungary of viktor orb n"s self-styled illiberal democracy . Template for poland"s governing law and justice party and insurgent paries in western europe. Threatens assumptions that shaped liberal democracy"s forward march in the. 1990s and that continue to guide mainstream politicians and polcy makers of centre-left and centre-right. Served interests of most people in developing countries and elites in advanced countries. Not the working and middle classes in developed economies. Immigrants come with longtime inhabitants for jobs and social services and also seen as having threatened established cultural norms and public safety.
