Political Science 1020E- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 22 pages long!)
5 Oct 2017
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P o l i t i c a l s c i e n c e 1 0 2 0 e. Improved health (decline of ebola, guide worm, polio, malaria, child mortality) Global poverty (37% in 1990 to 10% in 2015) Refugees, terrorism, war (including the chance of extinguishing all human life) Our goal: to think - critically, systematically, in a factually informed way - about our socially and political world. Syrian civil war (2011- present): over 465,000 killed, breakdown of social order; 5 million refugees. Denmark: well-governed, peaceful, happy, excellent health and education. It is not intelligence, propensity to violence or even geography that explains the di erences between denmark and syria. It is the state, the rule of law, and the accountable government. Politics is a bout collective choices we make to reduce con ict and promote cooperation. Descriptive: how things are (i. e. who has power, who gets to make the rules)
