POL 2104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Universal Health Care, Comparative Politics, Christian Ethics
8 Apr 2018
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Institutional approaches - capitalism needs some form of legitimacy to survive. Con ict approaches - social cleavages and their strengths. Focus on the social relations that effect a country. Strong class to class alliances leads to majority support. Comparative politics favours the class system: religion, gender. Gender: the beginnings of the welfare state, citizenship was based on blue collared men, working strategies of this welfare state were premised on male equality, Mens and women"s view of equality are very different. Factors in the private sphere: income maintenance system. Religion played a key role in creating the welfare state. Catholicism: catholic church pressed for social support because the social structures changed, the social structure revolved around the family, there is an emphasis on protecting groups. Belief in subsidiarity (the principle that a central authority should have a subsidiary function, performing only those tasks which cannot be performed at a more local level)
