May 14 2008
Just a Thought
Can’t shake off this thought, defnitely just a thought but worth noting:
What is the difference between liberal democracy and popular democracy?
Is liberal democracy capable of defying popular will for the sake of justice and welfare?
Or is liberal democracy a process that legitamize popular will regardless?
Is institutionalized slavery in America, Nazism in Germany and others not the results of popular democracy? Or even liberal (not necessarily progressive) democracy?
Example/question: are there ever instances of self-sacrificing or self-correcting liberal democracy? Civil rights movement: succeed because of liberal democracy or because of shift in socio-economic configuration? Or why uber-progressive movements, such as “abolition”, “great society” failed?
Is collective crime justifiable because of popular democracy?
Check out this: Arrow’s impossibility theorem. Also see Margaret Levi’s chapter in “Comparative Politics” p22