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1. LIBERAL DEMOCRACY Flashcards

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Considered democracy as a flawed rule of the many

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Aristotle

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Democracy’s core value is equality

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Alexis de Tocqueville

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Democracy involves self-government

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Alexis de Tocqueville

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Democracy promotes or expresses the common good

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Alexis de Tocqueville

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Challenged the classical view of democracy where the focus is on direct citizen participation

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Joseph Schumpeter

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Political representation, government as a representative democracy, and the process of forming it

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Joseph Schumpeter

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The public good is not an ideal, but manifestation of the actual functioning democracy

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Joseph Schumpeter

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Democracy - institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people’s vote

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Joseph Schumpeter

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Homogenous entity held by a shared general will

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Particular preferences will naturally gravitate toward or can be rationally persuaded to converge on common and morally worthwhile ends

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John Stuart Mill

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Focus of democratic theory

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Meaning, Institutions, Value

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Active participation of citizens in public affairs; the interaction of citizens as equals; and mutual trust and respect among citizens (social capital)

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Putnam

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Democratic government requires, among other things, a relatively passive citizenry that concerns itself with governmental affairs only to vote

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Joseph Schumpeter

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According to Madison, in a democratic setup, it is best that the factions of a republic be widely diffused across a large jurisdiction and governmental functions be exercised exclusively by representatives who are constrained by the checks and balances of a division of powers

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Protective democracy

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According to Mill, nearly all people have the moral and intellectual potentials for mutually enriching cooperative behavior and that democracy can help to develop these potentials

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Developmental democracy

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A highly developed economy and modern society (North American and European Model) enables democracy

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Dahl

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The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good… is not a sufficient warrant.

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John Stuart Mill

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The most important liberties to protect: freedoms of conscience, thought and feeling, holding and expressing opinions, pursuing one’s life plans, and combining with others for any (non-malicious)

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John Stuart Mill

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The perfect government is a representative democracy

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John Stuart Mill

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Promotes overall social utility or happiness

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Utilitarianism

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Individuals as the basic explanatory units of society

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Causal determinism or methodological individualism

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Individuals as autonomous agents deserve equal respect

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Kantian

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Seek to justify liberal-democratic principles in hypothetical agreements among rational and self-interested individuals

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Contractarian (Rawls)

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People’s values are socially informed by their group memberships

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Collectivism

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Support of multicultural group rights, since these memberships provide a ‘context of choice’ essential for autonomous action

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Collectivism

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Respect the freedom of individuals to act on their preferences rather than being obliged to forgo this ability or to adjust their preferences to socially determined goals

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Individualism

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Autonomist conception of freedom and the ability simply to act on present preferences, so people may still be free even if their aspirations are fixed or determined outside their own control

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Positive liberty

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Ability of an individual to use and develop his own capacities under his own conscious control for his own human purposes

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Developmental liberty

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The absence of impediments deliberately placed by some people in the way of other people’s efforts to pursue their chosen goals

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Negative liberty

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Interconnection of individual freedom and civic participation with the promotion of the common good

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Civic republicanism

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Political constitution is aimed at securing the common good of all its citizens

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Civic republicanism

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This task is chiefly fulfilled by the successful promotion of key ideals, such as mixed constitutions, civic virtue, and patriotism

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Civic republicanism

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Political institutions are restrained by certain principles, such as the separation of powers and the principle of checks and balances

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Civic republicanism

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A type of civic republicanism in which individuals can best realize their essential social nature in a democratic society characterized by active participation in political life

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Neo-Athenian or Aristotelian

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A type of civic republicanism that is a shift away from direct forms of democracy. It holds that the freedom of the individual is closely linked to the freedom of the state.

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Neo-Roman or Ciceronian

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A type of civic republicanism that stresses the need to protect and promote individual freedom against instability, mob rule, factions, and tyrants

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Neo-Roman or Ciceronian

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Institutional arrangements that preserve individual freedom by stressing more modern principles (anti-majoritarian devices like judicial review, representative government, and a strong sense of the rule of law)

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Neo-Roman or Ciceronian

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A type of civic republicanism that ensures that the government does not exercise any arbitrary power over the citizenry

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Neo-Roman or Ciceronian

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Famous adherents of Neo-Roman or Ciceronian civic republicanism

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James Madison and Niccolo Machiavelli

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The essence of politics does not reside in universal value systems but in the constitutive role that political struggle engenders

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Ciceronian, Niccolo Machiavelli

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Purpose of democratic politics is not to arrive at universal “truths” but rather to foster a system where competing hegemonies emerge through political struggle and conflict

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Ciceronian, Niccolo Machiavelli

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The Christian value system based on humility, sanctity, holiness, and compassion was simply incompatible with the classical humanist one based on strength, decisiveness, cunning, power-politics, and the antiquae virtus

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Ciceronian, Niccolo Machiavelli

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Political forces are always in constant and irreducible tension, where the few (i grandi) seek to control and oppress the many (il populo), and the many wish to liberate themselves from the few; this tension is the source of political stability

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Ciceronian, Niccolo Machiavelli

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If a liberal state is one that favors tolerance of people’s pursuits of alternative goods in alternative ways, then how can it avoid tolerating goals or manners of pursuing them that contradict liberal values themselves?

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Paradox of tolerance

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Encouragement of public criticism of government as a precondition for a viable democracy

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Margolis

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Publicly organized debates are necessary; absence of economic disparity and inequality

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Cohen and Rogers

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Considers nationalism as necessary for democracy

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Pennock

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Sees nationalism as incompatible with a democratic open society

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Popper

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