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Democracy Definitions, concepts and classifications

Ideologies Democracy or the Free Market? Communism: Stalinism, Revisionism, Eurocommunism or Marxism? Islam: Sunni, Shia, Shariat or Secular? Anti-colonialism, Neo-colonialism Feminism Trotskyism, Anarchism and terrorism

What is Democracy? Regular, contested elections Alternation of Governments Rule of Law freedoms: speech, association press, etc. pluralism/polycentrism/civil society Privacy Separation of powers/checks and balances

Important events Death of Socrates: Plato blames democracy [399BC] The Roman Republic [SPQR] Anglo-saxon and Viking ideas of warrior community [Dark Ages] Magna Carta 1215 Glorious Revolution 1688 American Revolution 1776 French Revolution 1789

“Modern” Events Chartists and 6 demands: Universal Suffrage [well, male] Equal electoral districts Payment for MPs Abolition of property qual. For MPs Vote by ballot Annual parliaments

Even more modern events Struggle for decolonisation Russian revolution 1917 Chinese protracted revolution Globalisation United Nations European Union Collapse of Communism and Westphalian settlement Idea of Universal Human rights

What sort of democracy? Participative People’s Democracy Representative Liberal Free market? Eurocommunist? Totalitarian /Rousseau-style General will Fabian one-party

Models of Democracy British American French Asian Islamic

Variables Electoral system and party system monarchy or republic uni- or bi-cameral fusion of executive and legislature separation of powers President and prime minister: 4th or 5th Rep ministers in or out of Assembly

Choosing a system 1: legislature and executive Presidential or parliamentary? British model? US model? French 4th Republic? French 5th Republic? Other European? Asian?

Choosing 2: electoral system PR or first past the post? Constituency size: whole country, German model or multi-member? Qualification for representation: what proportion of electorate? How do we want to fix the result? CPs thought single-member constituencies would benefit them. Turned out differently.

Choosing 3: Presidents Direct or indirect election? How much power? Relationship with Prime Minister Can Prexy dissolve Assembly?

The Tyranny of the Market W[h]ither the Nation-state?

Marx [or was it Engels?] “The state will wither away” Was this the state as “executive committee of the bourgeoisie”? Or as an instrument of class oppression? Or did he really mean what anarchists mean?

Globalisation Are we moving to a single global market? Does that mean forget national and regional markets? And does that demand global governance, rather than regional or national?

Would Marx agree with Friedman and Hayek? Capitalism is supposed to create the conditions necessary for socialism The revolution is an international one So capitalism must presumably create an international state for the proletariat to overthrow. “Man creates his own history but in conditions not of his own choosing” So F and H may be friends of Karl!

Friedrich Hayek Austrian, Chicago after Previously at LSE Anti-Keynesian/ free market economist Law Legislation and Liberty 3 vols Keith Joseph gave a copy to all civil servants in DTI when he became sec of state in 1979

Milton Friedman New Yorker Theoretical Economist Monetarist founder of “Chicago School” Governments should not intervene in the workings of the market Studies in the Quantity Theory of Money

The Market Hayek recognises the existence of market failure specifically to provide collective goods Friedman that the market can be relied upon to generate not only the best world but the best of all possible worlds

Fairness and Justice Hayek: the market and therefore inequality is justifiable individuals do not deserve their lot market can be cruel and unfair: hard work and bright ideas not always rewarded money is not a measure of human worth Friedman the distribtion of income found in a capitalist society is just in that it reflects the different talents abilities and efforts of the people in that society

The State Hayek state has a role in licensing quality must be guaranteed services must be contracted out Friedman State should be kept to a minimum market will guarantee quality services must be privatised

Issues Pollution Can government prevent deforestation? The safety-net caveat emptor? How do you form an army? Or: if the state no longer has a monopoly of coercive force, is it a state?

In conclusion Is the nation state withering away? Is Marx about to make a come-back? Is there an era of regional superstates around the corner, or a world state? Or is the term “state” redundant? “The executive committee of the global corporations” what will it look like and what power will it have?