POG 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pension, Authoritarianism, Failed State
23 Jan 2018
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State: decolonisation rise of sovereign states, post-wwii, national liberation, e. g. International law agreed rules: national milt > mercenaries, emerge of capitalism/taxation. Cbc there are private television: e. g. Canada post ups: regulation, put penalties on factories that create things that are negative, e. g. pollution, (cid:862)pigou(cid:448)ia(cid:374) ta(cid:454)(cid:863) to reduce negative externalities, subsidy of economic sectors/resource exploration, e. g. Informing or persuading the public: publicising health risks on cigars. Insulated from external world: totalitarianism, authoritarianism + ideology ctrl, no rules above state, six characteristics, official ideology, led by one dictator, police state terrorising pop, complete monopoly of communication, complete monopoly of combat, complete ctrl of economy. State failure: some can be temporary or permanent, natural disaster e. g. katrina, failure to protect international norms, foreign invasion, civil war, theory of local capture, corruption, public good < 1% of society, civil war, bureaucratic incompetence. Inability to provide basic services: failure of justice system, failure to protect minorities, judges (cid:862)(cid:271)ought off(cid:863)
