In this lesson, King’s College London Lecturer in Politics and Contemporary History Andrew Blick addresses the concrete ways in which the idea of democracy has been realized, protected, and advanced, asserting that these specifics may change as contexts shift or in pursuit of fuller attainment of democratic values. The lesson explains the common existence in democracies of an established set of core principles that rest on consensus and are held above regular law. Other varieties of democratic government, spanning from unicameral/bicameral legislatures to unitary/federal systems to the differing relationships between the legislature and the executive, are introduced and their strengths and weaknesses explored
In the first lesson of this series, King’s College London Lecturer in Politics and Contemporary History...
