POLI 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Party System, Majoritarianism, Consensus Democracy
19 Aug 2016
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The allocation of power and authority among political offices and agencies. Formal rules imply some kind of codification, such as a written constitution. Informal rules or conventions also are possible, these are practices that evolve over time and are accepted as conventions or norms which shape political expectations and behavior informal rules of the game. An ambiguity about regimes: there is nothing in this working definition which tells us over whom these rules are to legitimately apply. This ambiguity is resolved when we recognize that regimes are typically associated with states. For our purposes, the boundaries of regimes are typically the boundaries of states. There is nothing in the definition of a regime that tells you over who these rules will hold. A more formal definition of a political regime (taken from siaroff, but note: this is not taken from a part of his book which was assigned as a reading, you won"t find it in the reading):
