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15 ore fa · Liberal democracies were the heirs of Athenian democracy that valued the individual, over the totalitarian successors of tribalistic Sparta that prioritised the collective (Popper 2011 , 173–175). The values of Periclean Athens are contrasted with the closed society and ‘its creed that the tribe is everything and the individual nothing’ (Popper 2011 [ 1945 ], 180).
3 giorni fa · What is democracy? Where was democracy first practiced? How is democracy better than other forms of government? Why does democracy need education? democracy, literally, rule by the people.
- Democracy is a system of government in which laws, policies, leadership, and major undertakings of a state or other polity are directly or indirect...
- Studies of contemporary nonliterate tribal societies and other evidence suggest that democracy, broadly speaking, was practiced within tribes of hu...
- States with democratic governments prevent rule by autocrats, guarantee fundamental individual rights, allow for a relatively high level of politic...
- The hallmark of democracy is that it permits citizens to participate in making laws and public policies by regularly choosing their leaders and by...
4 giorni fa · highlight their inherent tensions with liberal democracy (and eventually the shortcomings of liberal democracy itself) (e.g. Betz 2004 , 83–100; Mudde 2007 , 138–57; Taguie 2012 , 21–35) or ...
1 giorno fa · 20th-century transitions to liberal democracy have come in successive "waves of democracy", variously resulting from wars, revolutions, decolonisation, and religious and economic circumstances. Global waves of "democratic regression" reversing democratization, have also occurred in the 1920s and 30s, in the 1960s and 1970s, and in the 2010s.
5 giorni fa · Political philosophy, branch of philosophy that is concerned, at the most abstract level, with the concepts and arguments involved in political opinion. The central problem of political philosophy is how to deploy or limit public power so as to maintain the survival and enhance the quality of human life.
2 giorni fa · This chapter focuses on democratisation, grounding this in an initial discussion of democratic theory. It begins by examining some key assumptions of democratic theory, albeit in a necessarily cursory fashion given the extensiveness of the field, and some of the now well-established feminist critiques of these assumptions. The chapter finds that although feminism has had some influence on ...
3 giorni fa · John Locke (/ l ɒ k /; 29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism".
