PSC 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Liberal Democracy, Transnational Crime, Environmental Degradation
Document Summary
Voters in industrialized democracies want government to respond to: decline in living standards, growing inequality, surging immigration, global warming. Crisis of governability within the western world. Rising democracies (brazil, india, turkey) are benefitting from inflow of economic vitality from the developed to the developing world. International crime: terrorism, unwanted immigration, environmental degradation. Internet and mass media fueling this ideological polarization. Globalization is stimulating demand for responsive governance, however, it is also causing ineffectiveness in the governance: three main reasons, globalization has made many of the traditional policy tools used by liberal. Ex: fixing the us economy through a stimulus has a small effect now democracies much blunter instruments: also depends on all the economies we are interacting with. The primary source of the declining fortunes of the american worker is global competition: jobs heading overseas. Very high polarization in government: many of obama"s economic reform bills cannot pass or are too watered down to do anything.
