POLI 474 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Democratic Centralism, System On A Chip, Intelligentsia
3 Feb 2017
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Midterm: 10:05-11:15 (70 mins. : 6 ids (2 paragraphs) > 35 mins, 1 essay q (about 2 pages) > 35 mins. A. kohli: role of political parties > social reform. Role of organization + ideology = pro-poor policies (india) 2: ideology / organization commit to excluding propertied-class (upper elite) from governance: clear leftist vision. 3: party has pragmatic attitude toward social reform: some entrepreneur included, x alienated. 4: organizational structure = centralized + decentralized: centralized: has leninist structure, decision made from top, executed below (binding decision, decentralized: ref. to party"s ability to penetrate local level (red panchayats) Argument for disciplining social democracies: change in the nature (ideology / organization) of state institution. 2-02-2017: must be within structure of party organization. Disciplined parties: 1: discipline social mobilization + channel in orderly manner (huntington, 2: ensure consistency (ideology) + policy implementation, 3: create partial insulation of state from society, state has some degree of autonomy.
