SOCA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Resource Mobilization, New Social Movements, Unlawful Assembly
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Voters are more likely to vote for parties they consider likely to win, notwithstanding their political programmes. This facilitates monopolization of politics by mainstream parties; increased likelihood of winning by incumbents. Less popular parties and projects becoming increasingly marginal. This is a cultural theory of political outcomes; it supplements the materialist (political-economy) and institutionalist (state) theories of political outcomes. Politics: the process of making socially significant decisions that affect large groups of population. Ramos and stanbridge: the process of managing conflict, including the regulation of power of non-state actors. Max weber on power: ability of a social actor to control behaviour of others despite their resistance. Max weber on authority: power accepted as legitimate by people who are controlled by it: traditional, charismatic, legal-rational. A set of institutions that determine and apply laws and public policies. It claims a monopoly on legitimate use of violence on a territory.
