POLI 227 Lecture Notes - Corporatism
31 Mar 2013
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Ways to hold coalitions together: shared ideas/ideology, political culture. Underlying attitude of the population to such issues as political community and political authority. Political socialization (where people get their political ideas) Parents, peers: very important socializing agent, not much the state can do here unless you live in an authoritarian regime. Religion: issues of social justice and morality, the state can have some influence here but religion is fairly resistant to state control. Education: state penetration is high because they have a say in the cirriculum- education is often an important way to instill nationalism. Workplace: harder to control the flow of info except in corporatist states with trade union control. Media: public broadcasting, hard to completely control because of the internet and difficult to restrict it but does have important impacts. Resources: general, diffuse benefits that flow to group but don t necessarily flow to you as an individual or specific benefits.
