POLI 243 Lecture Notes - Proportional Representation, Arab Spring, Parliamentary System
23 Apr 2013
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Characteristics of the states that makes them different. Societies (the things that they want) and the way they go about achieving what they want. Culture: start of the two world wars german (why?, drawback of this approach: lots of different states start work, culture changes very slowly, and its not clear that. Government: regime type, looks for different things when interacting with different states, how democratic states deal with each other. Reluctant to use force with each other. Democratic sources must have popular action otherwise voters will outvote the action. Different kinds of relations to other regime types such as monarchies. Promoting capitalism and free trade and democracy: soviets marxist for everyone, world revolutions, centralized planning. If you strip away the ideological differences, the cold war can end. Taking on russia and france at the same time. The kaiser was worried about continuing to rule in germany, the most popular party was the social democratic party.
