POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Participatory Budgeting, Civic Society, Indigenous Rights
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Liberalism and democracy are not the same thing. And you can have one without the other: illiberal. Democracy is about extending power to the people a radical idea. Liberalism is about setting limits on that power a conservative idea. Most people were opposed to democracy as they did monarchy. Which means; once it exists it is available to everyone (nobody can be excluded from using it), and the use of the good by one person does not diminish its use by anyone else. O(cid:374)(cid:272)e so(cid:373)e(cid:271)od(cid:455) (cid:271)uilds it (cid:374)o(cid:271)od(cid:455) (cid:272)a(cid:374) stop (cid:455)ou fro(cid:373) usi(cid:374)g it, (cid:455)ou do(cid:374)"t have to create clean air just wait for somebody to make it then use it yourself. Public goods will never be created by individuals who are acting in their only self-interest. While (cid:455)ou"re doi(cid:374)g hard (cid:449)ork (cid:272)reati(cid:374)g (cid:272)li(cid:373)ate (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge other people are doi(cid:374)g (cid:374)othi(cid:374)g to help (cid:271)ut benefit from this help.
