POLI 212 Lecture Notes - Initial Condition, Consensus Democracy, Plural Consensus
2 Oct 2014
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Majoritarian, consociational: causal argument political regimes reflect qualities of society. Adaptations to certain sorts of social features. Society-centric view of how regimes come to be: majoritarian vs consensus democracies, all have democratic government, rules of engagement, all representative democracy (not direct democracy, differ in: Majoritarian concentration of power in hands of majority: still subject to democratic rules of game. Consensus principle = to share and disperse political power as much as possible: about whether you share power or you concentrate power. Territorial dimension: territorial profile of a regime, basic question: is power concentrated territorially or divided, whether a regime is unitary and centralized or federal and decentralized. Society = plural means there exists differences in values which are politicized and are the basis of political organization/participation. Political management of these differences is more difficult. Majoritarian institutions at the political level will not work if they are plural.
