Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Liberal Democracy, Standard Operating Procedure, Collective Action
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Legal > duties in law, actors, responsible. Other governing organizations provinces, cantons, municipalities, aboriginal government. Political parties linked to institution, pre-date or born from institutions. Concrete not informal practices" (corruption, duplicity) Logic of appropriateness = institutional norms president bush and katrina. Less: logic of consequence = best action for goal sean penn. Institutional behaviour role of leader, opinion-makers. Configuration of objective relationships between social groups"/organisations. Groups, collectivities > individuals, institutions are a part of collectivities (being collective) Frameworks / parameters for actions and actors. Goal > ways to achieve > result analyse this. Model > prediction 2012 election: nate silver. Collective action problem > public goods not in any one"s particular interest but can be (environment) Mental constructions: ideas = politics (hegel) states, borders, canadian". Progressive research programme not all approaches seek this. Multiple methods most scholars use more than one.