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16 Cards in this Set
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Greek Philosopher View |
Thought of it as being the "mob rule"- lose wisdom and property |
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Democracy Definition |
-rule by poor -people rule themselves, continuously -equal opportunity and merit -welfare and redistribution -majority rule -secures rights of minourities -serves the interest of the public |
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Majority Rule |
Will of the numerical mass |
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Totalitarian Democracy |
Absolute dictatorship acting as a democracy |
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Direct Democracy |
Participation of people in all things that government passes |
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Representative Democracy |
Infrequent public excercise over those in power |
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Radical Democracy |
A form of democracy favouring decentralization |
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Classical Democracy |
Based out of Athens, a form of direct Democracy, regular meetings if assembly |
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Developmental Democracy |
Impacted Marxist and new left views. Based more out of community values, often dislikes political equality and wants an intelligent group to have higher power |
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Protective Democracy |
Based out of 17th and 18th century view of public participation being a way for citizens to be protected from government enroachment. Appeals to liberal thinkers. Focus on natural rights |
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People's Democracy |
Comes out of orthodox community regimes, connects to Marxism. No way to check the party in power, loss of accountability |
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Pluralist View |
Competition between parties for power with a mix of ideologies in power, conflict of various interests |
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Elitist View |
Critique of democracy and socialism, political power should always be recognized by an elite. Modern terms acknowledges this form falls short of the Democratic ideal (for some reason the US ideal is the ideal ideal???) |
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Corporatist View |
Based out if facist italy. Involving economic interests in government. Free market shifts this |
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New Right View |
Strong belief in the free market, fear if government overload. Doesn't agree with democracy due to how it brings about social transformation |
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Marxist View |
Belief that political power reflects the distribution of economic power as well as wealth distribution. Power cannot be equally spread if classes are unequal |
