POLS 1510 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Modernization Theory, Ultimate Power, Bicameralism
12 Feb 2016
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State institutions: refer not only to the rules but to the organizations that make them. It alludes to those who occupy executive leadership positions within the state. Marxists -- states come from dominant class and their interests which causes them to. Monopoly with violence to put dominant class rule over subordinate classes. It lays out how power is distributed within the state and between the state and its citizens groups with interests at stake seek to empower those parts of state that they have most advantage constitution- Political institutions depict how power is dispersed in the state define rights of citizens or limits of government define the state and its goals. Federal and unitary systems unitary system: political systems where power is centralized at the national level in the federal government. The executive legislature: an assembly that is a law-making body.
