POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Party System, Adam Gopnik, Robert A. Dahl
Document Summary
Rules of the game: political institutions, laws that protect fundamental human rights, rule of law instead of rule of man, rules are institutions/codified. Managing diversity: different interests in the world, democracies moderate them, rights, inclusions, interest groups for different voices to be heard. Institutionalized uncertainty: democracies are uncertain, there are always alternative. There must be a chance that you"ll lose. This creates accountability and responsiveness to respond to public. Variations of democracy: wide variety of institutional variations, none are the same dynamic and changing all the time with context and history. Equality : core to liberal and marxist tradition. Two ways to think of it in context to democracy: equality of opportunity: equality in political process. About the individual, and the individual as a citizen. Procedural democracy , how do we manipulate rules of the game for equality. Everybody has the political right to participate in election.
