POLS 242 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: John Kenneth Galbraith, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Maynard Keynes

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 242
• Professor: Oleg Kodolov

Document Summary

**accelerating rate of change, including changes in lifestyles, technology, and inventions within the past 100 years: constrains the states, globalized economy, and rising of global institutions [eg. United nations, wto, world bank, g20: cultural globalization. David easton: ** input decision making output feedback input (cycle) Francis fukuyama the end of history thesis (early 1990s) Samuel huntington the class of civilization thesis (early 1990s) Key events that globalized the world: end of cold war, fall of berlin wall, financial crises contributed to the more globalized. First elections were held in 2008, but in (cid:884)(cid:882)(cid:883)(cid:885) the opposition power came to power because they weren(cid:495)t happy with the ruling party: this shows that it(cid:495)s a democratic nation. )ts not a stable democracy yet, but it(cid:495)s the most recent and emerging democracy in modern times. High standard of living [material well-being, gnp: must be fairly high and a democratic political system must exist.