CPO-3403 Lecture 1: Jan 17 Notes
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Democracy (rule by the people or government in accordance with the will of the bulk of people) wasn"t always the favorite, an inferior form of politics. In 50 years, this idea changed in the second half of the twentieth century. 520bc in persia: plato and aristotle: the republic: political decision making should be based on expertise and that mob rule would result from allowing all people to rule in a democracy. State: an entity that uses coercion and the threat of force to rule in a given territory. Government: set of people who run the state or have the authority to act on behalf of the state at a particular point in time. Regime: the set of rules, norms, or institutions that determine how the government is constituted, how it is organized, and how major decisions are made. Measure as a quantification of the thing in which we are interested in.
