POL111H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Liberal Democracy, Big L, Canada Act 1982
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Most important source of information: the lectures. The test covers as far as we get into class today. Read the textbook to fill in the details from the lectures. A topic in the book that is not covered in class is not on the test. When studying, try to identify the key concepts and topics discussed in class. The following is a checklist you can use while studying: Difference between big (cid:522)l(cid:523) and little (cid:522)l(cid:523) and big (cid:522)c(cid:523) and little (cid:522)c(cid:523): don(cid:519)t get them mixed up. Liberal democracy: combines ideology of liberalism with indirect, representative democracy. Liberal democracies we elect the decision-makers and they govern. In-between elections, the politicians rarely directly ask us for our opinions in a referendum. In canada, referendums are rare and usually only used to answer the big questions. More common at the state-level in the us. The 8 main features of liberal democracies: be prepared to identify them and discussed each one of them:
