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Published: 01.11.2003.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Tensions between the Liberals and Democrats', 1.
  • Essays 'Tensions between the Liberals and Democrats', 2.
Extract

Q1. Andrew Parkin claims that there is a tension between the liberal and the democratic aspects of liberal democratic political systems. Explain what he means by this.
A Liberal democracy symbolizes the historical and ideological coexistence of two different strands of political development, inevitably combining them. These different strands are the liberal strand and the democratic strand. The results and testimony of this union is visibly embedded within western societies like Australia. …

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