POLI 212 Lecture Notes - Autocracy, System On A Chip, Collectively Exhaustive Events

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 212
• Professor: Hudson Meadwell

Document Summary

Working def of regime: rules of poli game. Allocation of power + authority among poli offices + agencies. Formal rules: imply s/kind codification, ex: written constit. Informal rules: conventions, practices that evolve over time + accepted as conventions/norms which shape poli expectations + behaviour. Ambiguity: nothing in def tells us over whom these rules are to legit apply. Amibiguity resolved when recog that regimes typically assoc w/states. Boundaries of regimes = typically boundaries of states. More formal def poli regime (siaroff): formal + informal structure of gov roles + processes inclu: Method of selection of gov + rep aseemp. Patterns of repression: under what condits does regime use violence/non-violent coercion against citizens. Disting regime fr/partic incumbents who occupy gov roles poli coalition supps incumbents + public policies which these incumbents adopt. S/thing more basic about poli regime: regime sets rules under which poli actors compete.