PS 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Fishing Net
3 Sep 2018
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Coercion and authority are not the same thing. You trust the weatherman"s authority, he isn"t coercing you. Rational choice theory says that based on the scenario, humans will work to maximize their utility (we know this from economics). Preferences change sometimes. (if i don"t feel strongly about an issue i might align my belief with my political party or friends). What works for individuals may not work for collective actors. Post materialist says development leads to less concerns over economic issues and more concern of identity issues. Post modernists are like, hey we can"t define a culture that exists in all society sooo. They want government intervention here but not there. Ideology is what justifies the ruling class"s political dominance. Incentives and constraints in social structures influence political behavior. Marx suggests that economic structure heavily influences political behavior. Marx focuses on institutions, but not all institutionalists are marxists.
