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DEMOCRACY and
LEGITIMACY
What do we associate
with democracy?
people, rule by many, popular
sovereignty, representation
rules, limits, laws, rule of law
rights, freedom, statue of liberty,
Bill of Rights
elections, ballots, consent,
legitimacy
Legitimacy
Traditional
Charismatic
Rational-legal
How do you link legitimacy to democracy?
What is democracy?
Models of Democracy
Democracy in Practice
In defining democracy
organization
Developmental Democracy (18th-19thC:
Rousseauist: obedience to a law one
prescribes to oneself or obedience to the
general will ); this requires political
equality and economic equality; shaped the
idea of participatory democracy;
JSMill: broader popular participation-
inclusive citizenship with the exception of
those who are illiterate- a deliberative
democracy
Models of Democracy
competing liberal views of democratic
organization
Economic Well-being
Popular sovereignty
FOUNDATIONS
Features of a Liberal
Democracy (Heywood)
indirect and representative democracy
guaranteed through regular elections
founded on political equality
based on competition and electoral
choice through pluralism and the
existence of opposition
distinguishes between the state and
civil society
Theories of Liberal
Democracy
Pluralism (Madisonian democracy-rule by multiple
minorities; Dahl- rule by the many or polyarchy -party
competition and articulation of interests)
Elitism (Classical elite models of Pareto, Mosca and
Michels: elite rule, rule by the privileged minority; Coherent
elite model of C. Wright Mills: power elite model;
Schumpeters Competitive or democratic elitism-elite rivalry-
fractured elite model)
Corporatism (integration of economic interests into
government; a design to secure the cooperation and
support of major economic interests; makes possible
functional representation- major groups compete to shape
government policy)
Theories of Liberal
Democracy
New Right (advocates the free market;
protective democracy- a defense against
arbitrary government)
Marxism (rooted in class analysis;power
is concentrated in the hands of a few-the
ruling class; liberal democracy as as
capitalist or bourgeois democracy;
difference(s) between the elitist and the
Marxist view of liberal democracy?)
Cosmopolitan
democracy?