QUESTION
Answer the following Questions (50 points each)
1. Who governs? How? Discuss in reference to the views with regard to democracy in practice
(Marxism Elitism, pluralism) and rival theories on the state (Pluralist state, Capitalist state,
Leviathan State, Patriarchal State).
2. "All ideologies (1) offer an account of the existing order, usually in the form of a
'worldview', (2) provide a model of a desired future, a vision of the Good Society, and (3)
outline how political change can and should be brought about". (Heywood, 2013:28)*
Choose one of the political ideologies of socialism, Marxism, conservatism, liberalism and
evaluate it according to the three points in the above given quotation. In your answers,
make sure that you refer to the key elements of the ideology you have chosen.