Why Social Movements Spring Up Outside The Formal Processes Of Electoral Democracy

by | Feb 2, 2022 | Uncategorized

Part A:

Answer ONE out of the following three questions, in 500 words or less:

  1. In the ancient Mediterranean world ‘democracy’ meant people (male citizens) voting in real-time on crucial issues. In our modern representative democracy we vote for others, our representatives, to make decisions for us. Yet these representatives also usually owe allegiance to their party, and to a government or opposition. Is it possible to reconcile these conflicting loyalties successfully, without citizens feeling that their voice is not being heard?
  2. Our electoral system is unusual in that it requires everyone to vote (or at least attend a polling-station), and it commonly requires us to rank all the candidates, including the ones we don’t like. In your view, is this better or worse as a means of expressing the people’s will than the voluntary, first-past-the-post system? Are there better options than either?
  3. Why do social movements spring up outside the formal processes of our electoral democracy? Why do many of these movements (such as Black Lives Matter) rise and fall, and appear and disappear, so fast? To what extent do they require organisation and a defined leadership, and to what extent can they emerge and thrive spontaneously?

PART B:

Answer TWO out of the following three questions, in 500 words each or less:

  1. Why are our relations with China currently so complicated and tense? To what extent are these tensions about trade matters, and to what extent do they involve questions of national security? How capable is Australia of resisting the trade boycott directed at our exports over the last couple of years?
  2. Do you think that Australia today should be considered more than a middle power in international affairs? Are we, as former shadow foreign affairs minister Alexander Downer previously suggested, a “pivotal power” on the world stage? Consider our influence in the Asia-Pacific region and draw upon the views of Ungerer.
  3. Do you think that Australia’s security and economic interests are aligned in Asia and the Pacific? To what extent do Australia’s economic interests determine its foreign policy in this region? To explain your reasoning focus on Australia’s economic and/or political relations with ONE Asia-Pacific country.

 

 

 

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