lecture 10

Question 1

What are arguments for a small government unit on democratic peformances?

Answer 1

A better input legitimacy: Political particapation and intrest representation functions better

smaller conanaties….?

Question 2

What are arguments for a larger government unit on democratic peformances?

Answer 2

A better output legitimacy = More effective in providing services to the people and in solving societial problems.

Effective protection on economicial and millitary scale. ( EU, USA)

Question 3

What are the three types of eurosceptism?

Answer 3

1. Anti-immigration eurosceptism (low edcated pvv’ers)
2. The pro-sovereignty eurosceptism (brexiteers)
3. The Anti-market eurosceptism (Radical lefties, seeing the eu as a social system instead of a trade thingy)

Question 4

What is the double squueze? The squeezd middle

Answer 4

• their relative postion
• Feeling relative behind, looking up to the higer classes
• Feeling deprived, becasue the lower classes are “close” (jeaslossy)
• Ant immigration isn’t about nationalism, but classes
• issue of entilement

Question 5

Why are the traditional center parties declining?

Answer 5

• Chrstian democracy: structrual devlie of core electorate of religous voters
• Disappering ideolgical reference points of the christen democracy
• Catch-all people parties do not longer have broad cross-class support
• Loss of embedment in civil society
• There is no intermediary postion between market (Liberalism) and state (socialsm)