POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Public Property, Leon G. Cooperman
14 Apr 2013
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This is not a dislike for the actions of the state, this is used as a basis to question the legitimacy of the state. Can be personal (particular to a person) which is not a crisis to the legitimacy of the state. Scandals do not count as crisis to the legitimacy. Conservatives could either call their bluff and agree to go to the voting. Capitalism stressed fundamental inequality; the real issue is you have to have rules where people can achieve the same amount of success. Democracy stressed equality; everybody should have the same rights under the law etc. Democracy is about groups- ethnicity groups, language groups, gender groups. Authority and its realm provokes ideological disagreement. Legitimacy is necessary for the stability of any political system but may be manufactured. States can lose legitimacy so all states manufacture legitimacy. To explain ideology and discuss how ideology is formed. Debates about ideology are really proxies for the goals of politics.
