What is liberal democracy
Liberal democracy is a particular form of democracy which is based upon a fundamental set of assumptions about the individual, the state and society. What are these basic assumptions and how far does liberal democracy succeed in its main aims?Francis Fukuyama in 1989 declared ‘The end of history’ claiming that with the fall of world communism and the almost universal acceptance of liberal democracy, that man had finally found the ultimate solution. As time goes by this view is being increasingly questioned, but there is no doubt that liberal democracy is currently the most favoured approach throughout the world to the problem of government. But liberal democracy is a word used all to easily to present a kind of utopian vision, without always questioning its fundamental tenants, or even defining it properly. To do this we must look at the assumptions it makes, and to see if it does indeed represent ‘the end of history’ as Fukuyama suggested, we must look at its aims and see if and to what extent it has achieved them. I intend to work through the basic assumptions that liberal democracy is based on, covering some of the arguments that exist about them and then to go on to show how there are as ma
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Approximate Word count = 1808
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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