POL111H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Big L, Liberal Democracy, Justin Trudeau
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Pol111 lesson 1: the world of liberal democracies: canada is a liberal democratic country, canada belongs to the family of countries known as liberal democracies. *** note this phrase combines two different concepts: liberal," and democracy. " note the small l , not a big l . In political science, there is a distinction between small l liberal, and big l liberal: small l liberal refers to liberal ideology or liberal cultural values. Big l liberal means the liberal party: similarly, small c conservative means conservative ideology or conservative cultural values. Liberal (small l ) democracies combine representative or indirect democracy with the ideology of liberalism: justin trudeau became pm when his liberal party defeated the. Conservative government in the 2015 general election: stephen harper became pm when his conservative party beat the. Important to note that liberal democracy is accepted not just by members of the big l iberal. Party: canada is a liberal democratic country.
