POLSCI 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Blue-Collar Worker, Global Governance, David Held

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Mid 20th century democracy started, canada: not 1967. 1 key trend in modern democracy: the extension of the franchise. People of colour, women, etc. were discluded in voting. Answer: there is an irony to the history of the extension of democracy determines outcomes, has often been prefaced by violence. A peaceful democratic public sphere, one within which dialogue rather than force. The electoral process is structured in such a way that the people are far removed from government. The people don"t get what they want: how to manage the tension between the will of the majority and the rights of the majority. What determines whether something is a public issue (and therefore) subject to democratic oversight), Marxist critique: the separation between public and private spheres is artificial. The economy is often treated as being in the private sphere. But the private economy has public effects. The private distribution of wealth has an impact on the character of the public .

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