POLI 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Identity Politics, Feudalism, Economic Inequality
19 Feb 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Europeans seen more along a collectivist line as opposed to americans who are more individualistic. The reason why american politics is because the frontier era is over. Moving west to get change and access to wealth. Europe ended their frontier theory a long time ago. Religion is an individualistic idea in america done personally in big numbers: largely outside of political parties. Head of cdu individual alone: europe has become affiliated with political parties, principles still hold true to their politics. According to a survey by gallup, 51% of utahns attend church at least once a week. With just 17% of self-proclaimed weekly churchgoers, vermont came last in the list, closely followed by new hampshire (20%) and massachusetts (22%) Benefit: studying these democracies at the same time to see how democracy works. Not a guaranteed outcome of the industrial revolution. If it is too low, no change will be made.
