54000 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Gauja, Neive, Social Democracy
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Ideology shapes, deepens our understanding and assists us to define how we perceive society. Tensions between participation and deliberation are reflected through increased majoritarian patterns of representation. I originally agreed with gauja"s argument that the dominance and success of the labour and liberal ideologies of neo-liberalism and conservatism, and labourism and social democracy, demonstrate how elections are essentially party competitions" (gauja 2012, p. 172). However, in engaging with lecture material, i now see how voter dissatisfaction and failures to represent contemporary ideologies such as feminism, Islamism and socialism have contributed to greater support for minority parties such as the environmentalism and social democracy of the greens, and pauline hanson"s one nation party. Such difficulties are complicated by the changing nature of political participation. This includes the decline of party membership and donations, and increases in alternative methods of participation such as facebook and twitter. Greens, labour and liberal party explanations of participation in youtube videos.
