Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Centralisation, Social Inequality, Social Democracy
27 Feb 2015
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What is a party: a group of people. Lecture 14: organized for the purpose of winning governmental power, usually with common ideological orientation, a program covering a wide array of issues. It is a modern institution: emerging 18th, 19th, 20th century, to manage representative government in an age of mass suffrage, initial resistance in 18th century parties as factions". Parties divided people" and were bad: shifting popularity of parties ever since. Interest articulation and aggregation: specialization and mobilization, organization of government, parties want to win elections for the right to exercise power on our behalf; strive to form governments. Does not want to change your view, just aggregate your preference: little commitment to ideology, class. Middle class (working families) is most of society, project party as having strong beliefs that are difficult to distinguish. Left and right wing: distinction is not stable, what left meant in french revolution is not as same as.
