POL S101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Anthony Giddens, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Human Security

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CHAPTER 7

Institutions and States

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Understanding Institutions

•Regular patterns of behaviour that give stability and

predictability to social life

•Informal: no clear written rules, such as the family,

social class, or ethnic group

•Formal: codified rules, such as governments, political

parties, bureaucracies, legislatures, constitutions, law

courts

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Institutions

•Can structure and constrain behaviour

•Can also serve as tools or resources

•Political scientists tend to focus on formal institutions

•Attempt to identify regularities that might serve as

“laws” (e.g., first-past-the-post electoral systems

produce two-party systems)

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