POLI 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Parlement, Responsible Government, Liberal Democracy
12 Sep 2018
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Regimes set the rules on how a country is run and organized internally. What are the rules and to whom do the rules apply. How is the will of the citizens expressed. Formal and informal processes of government roles and processes. Structure: how to select government and members of assemblies. Linked to the weberian definition of the state (monopoly of the use of force in its territory) According to weber, it is a body that exercises exclusive political authority over a population in a specific territory. Not the same as a government and state. France under first republic and fifth republic-despite changes in its regime, its territorial boundaries remain the same. There could be independent powers such as the monarch and the military bureaucrats shadowed by an oversight body to assure there is no abuse of power. Free and fair competition for political office: a democracy cannot exist in a collapsed state.
