PSC 1003 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Kenneth Waltz, Wield, World Politics
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Instruction to omit attributes and interactions is often not done or goes unobserved. Political structure are arranged: hierarchically ordered (principle by which it is ordered) a) Institutions stand next to each other in relations of super and subordination: political actors are differentiated according to their position of authority - extent of power they wield (1) ex- congress (military), president (commands them), Congress (laws), president (enforces them) (a) the more fully the roles are specified, the more developed the state is (b) formal differentiation: relative capabilities (specification of function of units) Anrchic: domestic structures have gov institutions and offices, however, ip is. International systems/economic markets analogy: both are formed by the co-action of self-regarding units b) In international political structure we ask habits, objectives, desires and forms of gov not whether states are revolutionary, democratic, legit or authoritarian, not friendship or hostility, alliances they form . We ask what range of expectations arises from the type of order that they have.
