POLS 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Non-State Actor

• School: University of San Diego
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 150
• Professor: Alan Segui

Document Summary

Sovereign power to make and enforce laws-state actors. Non state actors have influence to shape political outputs+behavior. In a democracy there is an element of sovereignty within the citizens. Chapter 5 : expectations to participate in the community. More likeliness to participate if its a community in which we care ab: us highest b, uk higher the g and m. More tendency to do self acts: positively correlated with educational attainment increases -knowledge is power (relevancy, the more power" u have the more u can do. Democracy translation i. i. ii. iii. iv. i. i. i. ii: free debate & finding alternatives and etc requires ppl talking politics and expressing opinions to ppl who disagree & etc. Reflects better opportunities to discuss, vet, and makes decisions given possibilities: how democracy is supposed to work (in theory) Don"t be fixated on level or nature of participation: what is a good citizen.