POL 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Global Governance, Toleration, General Agreement On Tariffs And Trade
14 Feb 2020
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There have been many attempts to create political systems based on anarchy, but these systems are incredibly difficult to create/maintain. Instead, governments/states as structures/processes of governance have been prevalent in our lives, locally, nationally, and internationally, with positive and negative consequences. Anarchy: a system of social, political, and economic relations without formal institutions of governance to define enforceable rules/exact obedience from the governed. Realistic scholars use this term to characterize the international system, where there is no authority above the state than can solve inter-state mean chaos. conflict anarchy does not. We seek to create/accumulate knowledge about how politics unfolds around us so that we can understand/change the world around us. In the process, we learn that no political system will be perfect, but each one can be improved governments/states are subject to criticism. For example, in many democracies, such as canada, there is a democratic deficit.
