Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Group Cohesiveness, Politeia, Authoritarianism
28 Dec 2017
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Representative democracy is: (a) an invention of the ancient greeks (b) the preferred regime of jean-jacques rousseau (c) incompatible with liberal democracy (d) a regime that emphasizes elections. Agenda: to explore the relationship between governments, regimes, and states, to place in context and examine in detail, three different regime classification schemes, classical/aristotelian, three worlds, heywood"s take, to consider the varieties and sources of authoritative regimes. Why classify political regimes: to promote understanding by, establishing patterns, categories, exploring similarities and differences, evaluating effectiveness. If we don"t have regime categories we cant evaluate which types of regimes work best. Good and bad forms of government according to aristotle: aristotle: mixed regime best polity plus aristocracy, combine the rule of the many and the common interest and the rule of the few and. Politeia the common interest: england 17th-19th century mixed regime, rule by one (monarchy, few (house of lords, many (house of commons)
