Just five years ago, I was a young naive first year student in POLI 211, Introduction to Comparative Politics. My professor, a former East German journalist, Dietlind Stolle, asked the class what they thought equality should be mean. Was it equality of opportunity or equality in results?
The class overwhelmingly supported the former. My professor was taken aback.
Was my class simply a product of the highly successful times? Would this same result happen today at McGill? I wonder how I would have voted had I been an impressionable 18 year old political science major in 2009 rather than 5 years earlier.
Were we just drunk on economic growth, and has our expectation of government changed? I think it’s a question worth asking.
