Democracy notes (3rd edition)

For Anthony Arblaster democracy is still ‘unfinished business’ . Despite the capitalist victory over the communist Soviet Union in the late twentieth century, the democratic principles that triumphed over that of the communist regimes are far from perfect. In Arblaster’s view, many undemocratic anomalies remain in our current conception of what defines democracy today. Arblaster suggests that in order to overcome these anomalies democracy must be established on a higher level than simply t...