PO101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Environmental Governance, European Balance Of Power, Authoritarianism
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Part 1 -- big ideas: politics, state power, democracy, freedom and justice, the world of ideologies, mainstream ideologies, alternative ideologies, extreme ideologies, part 2 -- nuts and bolts, state development. Institutions and the state: constitutions, law and the politics. Legislators and legislatures: the rise of populism and its effect on politics, political participation, political culture and civil society, policy making. Guest speaker: dr. debora van nijnatten, department of political science, wlu, research and publications have focused on transboundary environmental governance in. North america: also worked on climate change, air quality, and recently aquatic invasive species, **on exam** (hinted at short essay) Understanding institutions: regular patterns of behaviour that give stability and predictability to social life. States: structure of rule and authority within a particular geographical area, state capacity: "the ability of a gov"t to administer its territory effectively" (wang, 1995, four basic forms of state capacity:
