GMS 724 Lecture 2: Chapter Two - GMS 724
19 Sep 2016
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How can start bucks be affected by politics: taxes, gov"t, small business owner: want a gov"t that is stable, developed, Developed in india due to growing middle class. External influence: political, legal, economic, geographical, cultural. Definition of a political system: complete set of institutions, political organizations and interest groups, the relationships among institutions, and the political norms and rules that govern their functions, canada (cid:0, china (cid:0) Individualism vs collectivism: individualism: primacy of rights and role of individual, collectivism: primacy of right and role of the community. Political ideology: system of ideas that expresses the goals, theories, and aims of a sociopolitical program, most modern societies are pluralistic-different groups champion competing political ideologies o. Spectrum: govt"t control with public control o. Trends in political systems: third wave of democracy, engines of democracy, failure of totalitarian regimes to deliver economic progress. 2: economic dividends of increasing political freedom. Improved communication technology (russia, china, east europe examples)
