PSCI 2101 Lecture Notes - Authoritarianism
7 Jul 2014
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Learn by looking at politics as its practiced in countries, not by theories. After wwii, a common way to classify countries was the three worlds system: first world western world. Countries w/ industrial capitalism and market economies and democratic forms of government: second world communist world; soviet union, eastern europe, china, etc. Countries that had a single very strong socialist party in power and had state control over economy. They were quite industrialized but were undemocratic: third world developing world/post-colonial countries. America; had particular types of problems having to do with the fact that they had been historically dominated by first world. We no longer use this way of dividing up the world. Now more likely to see first, second, and third world to see common problems. Find it easier to compare countries of global north though to solve common problems. Global north countries = europe, na, russia, and china. A state is something fairly specific and modern.
