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University of Manchester.
3500 word essay ‘What is valuable about Democracy’ Needed by 12th Feb 2017.
What is democracy?
• What does it mean to say that the people rule in a democracy?
• What are the fundamental values that motivate (or should motivate) our
attempts to maintain and strengthen democracy?
• Does democracy require liberal rights?
• To what extent is democracy simply about majority rule?
• Is democracy intrinsically valuable or only valuable for the good
consequences it brings about?
• How universally applicable is democracy to other cultures and other
nations with no hist
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acy/
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