POLS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Tabula Rasa, Bush Doctrine, International Monetary Fund
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Class this wednesday and friday and next monday. Redistributive policies (takes money from one person and gives it to someone else) causes conflict. Groups that benefit: elderly entitlement, the middle class tax code (property-owners), can save more and benefit from the system. Wealth is inter-generational (goes from one generation to the next) Short-term: president in office for maximum of 8yrs, not a long time to implement your foreign policy. Incremental: president"s don"t inherit a blank slate (things are already being done when they come into office) so things are usually changed in increments. (ch. 2 part 2) central points from textbook. That america had isolationist tendencies, best describes the american posture towards the world prior to the middle of the twentieth century. The cold war refers to the period of struggle between the united states and the soviet union between the 1940s and the late 1980s.
