POLI 1P98 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: White-Collar Crime, Visible Minority, Proletariat
14 Apr 2016
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Why are some interests more powerful than others. The canadian political system advantages some interests in the policy process at the expense of others. Geographically concentrated interests vs geographically dispersed interests. Canada"s political institutions are biased in favour of geographically concentrated interests: Federalism and regional economies - regional economies have significant interest over specific economies and can dominate (ex, alberta and the oil domination). Two sets of interests: greens, and the agis (irrigators) Both interests keep fighting and the agis kept winning, because in the small section of southern alberta, the agis were geographically concentrated whereas the greens were geographically dispersed over all of alberta. Those who are invested in a policy status quo and who seek to protect it from change. Financial investment - oil companies have invested hundreds of billions of dollars developing the oil extraction; so they are heavily invested in that policy. Dependence of policy rents" - when people are making money off a policy; the.
