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| What factors raised pressures to the U.S. ? |
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| Weakening trade unions and globalization. |
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| Economicgrowthmakes it easierto do what? |
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| Allocate moneytoprotecting others in society(providing social protection) |
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| What was the example of an economicpressure/ economic challenge that the U.S. had to face in terms of oil? |
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| third world countries raised the prices on oil , which diminished our wealth. So that left us with only alittle money to help allocate to the poor . |
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| In a liberal democracy such as the U.S. , the lesser the economic growth , then the lesser ? |
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| The less the government can help out the poor in society. |
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| Speaking in the terms of the U.S. , why is a "privatization of social protection" risky ? |
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| because it depended solely on one's investment in the market. |
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| Bill Clinton's welfare reform went more into the direction of what and why ? |
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| a liberal democracy , because it dealt with something to help out the poor in society. |
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| How was Bush like Reagan , and what ended up happening to him ? |
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| He cuts taxes , and wanted to have a privatization of social protection , and ended up with a huge budget deficit just like reagan. |
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| What makes it very difficult to enact changes in countries such as the U.S. ? |
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| The U.S. Constitution , the whole checks and balances thing , and the "institutional combat " all makes it so hard to enact changes in any direction. |
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| Everyone starts off close to liberal democracy , then advances towards social democracy except for ..? |
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| Which country is by far the most liberal democratic country among advanced countries ? |
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| What is the main question over everything we've been learning lately ? |
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| why do some countries advance far to a social democracy, and others don't. |
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| the u.s has a very high priority on what ? |
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| Individual liberty ( hand in hand with individualism ) . |
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| Why don't liberals like the whole "equality of outcome' concept ? |
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| because they feel like if you're not letting everyone do their own thing , then you're taking away their individual liberty. |
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| What type of government do liberals want ? |
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| A small government that doesn't oppress people , because they have a distrust/skepticism for the government. They feel that the governement must be restrained/limited. |
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| What are the 3 areas of "institutional framework " that the U.S. has in order to stop bad things from happening , and protect people's liberty ? |
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| the constitution , judicial review , and seperation of powers( checks and balances) |
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| In a liberal's eyes , what does the constitution serve as ? |
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| A restriction on the government , and a protection for human and civil rights. |
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| Which framework does the liberals place above popular sovereignty ? |
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| why do liberals feel that judicial review is neccessary ? |
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| it is neccessary to enforce and guarantee the rights of the constitution . |
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| The exercise of popular sovereingty is limited by what ? |
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| Why do liberals always push for checks and balances/seperation of powers ? |
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| Because they don't like the idea of one supreme power . |
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| What's the difference between U.S. system vs. the Britain parliament system ? |
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| Britain's parliament system did not have a constitution , so there was no restrictions at all on the laws they made. Britain has "Parliamental Sovereignty". What the prime minister says goes . But in the U.S. , the decisions have a broad consensus. |
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| How do liberalists feel about state intervention ? |
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| Liberalists don't really trust the state , they want to keep the state limited. " all we need is some state intervention." |
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| In the u.s. , big companies tend to have power over what ? |
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| In the u.s. , in the eyes of the liberal , why does the free-market not work ? |
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| Because it's hard to have competition if someone is just totally dominating and pushing everyone else aside. This is exactly why we need the governement to control stuff like this , because we need competition. |
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| Even in a liberal democracy , there are needs for some what ? |
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| In terms of protection for citizens , the u.s was never as generous as ..? |
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| why do european countries tax a lot more ? |
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| so that they can contue to keep the welfare/protection for their countries. |
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