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Fiscal crisis of the welfare state
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The crisis in state finances that occurs when expanding social expenditure coincides with recession and declining tax revenues.
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Revolution
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A popular uprising, involving extra-legal mass action, which brings about fundamental change (a change in the political system itself) as opposed to merely a change of policy or governing elite.
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Reform
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Change brought about within a system, usually by peaceful and incremental measures; reform implies improvement.
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Consent
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Assent or permission; in politics, usually an agreement to be governed or ruled.
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Performance legitimacy
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The capacity of a regime to generate public acceptance and a sense of rightfulness through the delivery of favourable economic and social outcomes.
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Majority rule
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The rule that the will of the majority, or numerically strongest, overrides the will of the minority, implying that the latter should accept the views of the former.
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Cosmopolitan democracy
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A form of democracy that operates at supranational levels of governance and is based on the idea of transnational or global citizenship.
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Totalitarian democracy
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An absolute dictatorship that masquerades as a democracy, typically based on the leader’s claim to a monopoly of ideological wisdom.
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Radical democracy
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A form of democracy that favours decentralization and participation, the widest possible dispersal of political power.
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Economic democracy
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A broad term that covers attempts to apply democratic principles to the workplace, ranging from profit-sharing and the use of workers’ councils to full workers’ self-management.
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Natural rights
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God-given rights that are fundamental to human beings and are therefore inalienable (they cannot be taken away).
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General will
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The genuine interests of a collective body, equivalent to the common good; the will of all, provided each person acts selflessly.
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Accountability
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Answerability; a duty to explain one’s conduct and be open to criticism by others.
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Deliberative democracy
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A form of democracy that emphasizes the need for reasoned discussion and debate to help to formulate legitimate political outcomes.
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Leninist democracy
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A form of democracy in which the communist party, organized on the basis of ‘democratic centralism’, articulates the interest of the proletariat.
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