POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Canadian Medical Association, Participatory Budgeting, Direct Democracy
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Democracy is about extending power to the people a radical idea political participation. They worry that democracy will lead to redistribution. They fear that if the masses get political power, they will use it to violate the right to property. However, it hasn"t been the case which is still a mystery liberalism is about setting limits on that power, a conservative idea respect for human rights, rule of law liberalism gets democracized. Until now, at a pt, where it cannot be extended any further unless non citizens can vote in elections. Rational choice theory school of thought that people behave rationally. Political participation are aimed at producing a public good. Rational choice theorists insist that very few people would logically spend all that time and effort just to achieve a public good jointly provided and not excludable. The individual will benefit from the provision and everyone will benefit too, not just people who produced it.
