POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Robert A. Dahl, Deliberative Democracy, Cosmopolitan Democracy
10 Jul 2016
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Assumption in liberalism (economic and political liberalism) that democracy and capitalism reinforce each other- emphasis in both on freedom of the market, vote etc. Force of capitalism- have we become more consumers than citizens . Strength of transnational corporations, 51 out of largest 100 economies are corporations. 147 corporations control 47% of the worlds wealth. Corporations are legally required to put the interest of their shareholders first. Continuing justifications for and the spread of democracy. That people should be involved in governing themselves. That some principle of equality ( of influence) should be involved in this. An example is deliberative democracy, citizen assemblies, town halls. Communitarian approaches as opposed to individualist- emphasis on finding common values within communities to strengthen democracy. One way of looking at that is the question whose interests prevail. Assumption: democracy is desirable because power is shared and because people are free. Democracy expresses core values of freedom and equality.
