PLSC 2231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Louis Hartz, Gad Horowitz, Counter-Revolutionary

• School: Mount Royal University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PLSC 2231
• Professor: Bruce Foster

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Federal parties do represent themselves as ideological vehicles. The liberals are centrist-liberal (brokerage party) and they borrow from right and left. The conservatives are centre-right with a mix of old and new conservative components. The ndp occupy the centre-left, self-identifying as social democrats. Lipset also believed that two countries were born out of the american revolution. Canadians consciously rejected the liberal/rational objectives of the american founding. British north america, later canada would not seek a break away from britain. The arrival of the uels from the thirteen colonies into canada helped to reinforce that perspective. Nor would canada adopt the a(cid:373)eri(cid:272)a(cid:374)s(cid:859) pri(cid:374)(cid:272)ipal ideologi(cid:272)al (cid:448)ie(cid:449) o(cid:374) the (cid:272)e(cid:374)trality of i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual rights. Louis hartz said the usa is the (cid:449)orld(cid:859)s o(cid:374)ly lo(cid:272)kea(cid:374)-liberal nation-state, and those ideological (cid:858)frag(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts(cid:859) of li(cid:271)eralis(cid:373) a(cid:374)d purita(cid:374)is(cid:373) fro(cid:373) settlers harde(cid:374)ed i(cid:374)to pla(cid:272)e to gi(cid:448)e the usa its (cid:449)orld view. For many americans, individual rights and notions of equality via merit key components of their political (cid:272)ulture.