CPO 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Kim Jong-Il, Authoritarianism, Noble Savage
13 Apr 2016
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The state creates standards through which public goals such as freedom and equality can be achieved: laws and regulations. Driver"s licenses: property rights, health and labor protections, social welfare. The state determines how much and for how long you receive this. Regimes serve as the fundamental rules and norms of politics. How should it be used: freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, so how do we govern the trade offs between them. Often institutionalized: not easily changed (rigid, sticky", regime change generally occurs as a result of dramatic events, revolutions or crises such as removal by war: regime change (iraq, takes a massive political event to change the regime. The leadership in charge of running the regime within the state. May be democratic or undemocratic, may be entrenched, strong, weak, durable, rigid, flexible etc. Comparatively weakly institutionalized compared to the state and the regime removed by public, by force, by mortality.
