POLI 211 Lecture Notes - Cabinet Of Canada
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28 Oct 2012
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Hard core elements of comparative analysis: individuals. Differences between individuals, government, and society: rules. Constitutional arrangements (national level and on a smaller scale like a town) Rules can be written or unwritten (i. e. canadian cabinet doesn"t exist on paper) Three types of rules: procedural rules (working of bureaucracy or operational rules), governmental rules, constitutional rules. Property rights exist in a variety of ways/settings. Rules can be nested together or stacked: life goods and public/government goods. Maslow"s hierarchy of needs = life goods. Division between private and public goods (non-rivalry and non-excludable) Some public goods are mixed goods (public and private features) Nature of public goods: control of indirect consequences, packageability of exclusion principle, maintenance of preferred state of community affairs (i. e. public park) Governments have the power to make all goods public goods. How goods interact to lead to different political systems.
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