THEORIES OF DEMOCRAY

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THEORIES OF DEMOCRAY

• Jihad Vs. McWorld
• MR DOUG PERKINS

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SOME NEWS
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ADMIN

• Senior Exams Due Today
• Other Exams Due Next Thursday
• I Can Answer General Questions
• Especially procedural ones
• But not specific substantive ones
• I am not accepting drafts of answers
• Questions about the final
• Be sure to define democracy
• Frame the questions to your strengths
• Exam Two Reclama Due Next Thursday
• Reclama Amnesty for Exam One
• For multiple choice questions only
• What Are Your Questions?
• I will stop early to answer individual questions
• Bias and its effect on lecture, grades

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DISCUSSION POINTS

• What is the biggest problem facing
  democracy?(EXAMPLES)

• Religion
• Nature of the problem
• Theoretical problem
• Practical problem
• Possible solution
• Theoretical solution
• Practical solution
• Decline in Social Capital
• Nature of the problem
• Theoretical problem
• Practical problem
• Possible solution
• Theoretical solution
• Practical solution

• McWorld
• Nature of the problem
• Theoretical problem
• Practical problem
• Possible solution
• Theoretical solution
• Practical solution
• Jihad
• Nature of the problem
• Theoretical problem
• Practical problem
• Possible solution
• Theoretical solution
• Practical solution
• Human Nature

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JIHAD vs. McWorld

• McWorld
• a universalizing trend
• Market imperative
• Marx and Lenin were right
• Resource imperative
• Autarky impossible
• Info-tech imperative
• Common solutions and technologies
• Ecological imperative
• Global trends

• Jihad
• the particular response

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QUESTIONS???