POLI 2051 Chapter : Chapter 1
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What separates government from other institutions?---the ability to use coercion (forcing you to do something). Five meanings of democracy: the value of the individual dignity from your creator; it transcends government. Natural: individual dignity the idea came from john locke. One man, one vote: minority rights, indirect democracy or direct democracy, minority groups have the opportunity to influence policy, we would like to have direct influence on the policy. You can"t plurality system winner take all; gives you two parties) and have a direct democracy in a large state, so we elect one person to represent us. The us falls into the middle of majoritarian (a consensual democracy (proportional representation; multi-party. Are their political parties: the party system do you have two parties or multiple parties, electoral system. Ways to look at how democracy works: impinging on it. It makes it hard to bias the government.
