Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Individualism, Authoritarianism, Montesquieu
8 Dec 2016
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Lectures 9 and 10: political regimes in the past and present. Government: institutional processes involved in making and implementing collective decisions. Political system: government plus broader structures and processes of interaction with society. Government: officials charged with routinely exercising power. Regimes: fundamental rules and procedures determining who may exercise power and how. State: basic institutional context within which these rules apply. Regime: rules determining distribution of power within the state. Mixed regime best polity plus aristocracy. Western economic and political advancements relative to (cid:498)the east(cid:499) 20th century (cid:498)the west(cid:499) against: totalitarianism (nazism and. Development in three world nics, brics. Collapse of ussr end of second world. Partial integration of china no new second world. Robert dahl: first competition, tolerance of opposition, increasing participation. New democracies complex and often incomplete transitions: Islamic regimes import islamic (cid:498)way of life(cid:499) to political sphere: Military regimes access to power depends on position within military: Rule by a small group of individuas.
