POLS 2998W Study Guide - Final Guide: Polyarchy, Telescreen, Stanford University Press
6 Oct 2018
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Runciman"s notion of crisis : politicians need to be more aggressive with crises. Democracies cannot always learn from their mistakes, some crises impose irreversible damage. Crises become crises because democracies are caught between their impulse to precipitate action and their instinct to wait. Democracies are great at surviving crises because their experience of crisis is more likely to make democracies complacent than it is to make them wise: what democracies learn is that they can survive their mistakes. Runciman"s idea of muddling : muddling through will not solve the economic crisis, discrimination, or global warming. Democracy cannot survive without financial security, equal rights, and a suitable climate. Voters are generally unconcerned with these issues, because democracy resolves crises over time. Orwell"s ideal of newspeak: the official language of oceania. It is designed to make the ideological premises of ingsoc (newspeak for english socialism, the party"s official political alignment) the only expressible doctrine.
