POLI 328 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: European Debt Crisis
19 Aug 2016
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States that they wished to be united by their similarities rather than exacerbate differences. Sometimes known as ministers of state or state secretaries. A police patrol monitoring system: junior ministers patrolled by more senior members of other coalition party. Catalonian/scottish independence, migrant crisis, euro crisis- all challenge the. European nation-state as the arena of key public decision-making. Trends in european politics: trend for important decision to be taken at eu rather than national levels, trend for greater decentralization within european countries, decisions against federalism in central and eastern europe. Activities of gov are divided between regional governments and a central government in such a way that each kind of government has some activities on which it makes final decisions. 3 structural components: geopolitical division, independent bases of authority, direct governance: each citizen governed by their (fill in rest) Federal countries (austria, belgium after 1993, germany, switzerland) Sovereign politics give up part of sovereignty in order to pool together regions/peoples.
