POLI 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: The Communist Manifesto, Comparative Politics, Gabriel Almond
14 Mar 2016
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Changing analyical approaches to the study of poliics in the developing world poli227. Developing world: varying degree of poliical systems. Poliics of modernizaion: us 1950, mainstream liberal pro-capitalist perspecive. Dependency theory: marxist inspired, later became a state focused marxist approach. Globalizaion theory: incorporaing elements of both developmentalist and dependency perspecives, undermines the premise of a disinct developing world. Changing circumstances, eg. ww2 new world was born of two superpowers. Created comparaive poliics: behavioural revoluion encouraged a more scieniic approach to build general social theories and test them empirically, modernizaion: assumpion ha the process of modernizaion experienced the. West provided a guide to what to expect in the developing world. Gabriel almond disinguished a series of poliical funcions and examined their relaionship with paricular structures or insituions. Four input funcions: poliical socializaion: insilling aitudes towards the poliical system, poliical recruitment, ariculaion of interests, aggregaion of interests/demands. Three output funcions: rule making, rule implementaion, rule adjucaion, more pervasive funcion of poliical communicaion.
