POLI 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Occupy Movement, Social Movement, Peace Movement
28 Feb 2017
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Organized, sustained, self-conscious challenge to existing authorities. Represent a specific constituency that does not usually see goals reflected in decision- making. Not all politics happen through formalized institutions. Political, but less direct way of engaging the political institution. Due to lack of engagement an issue not being dealt with/ not being dealing with it enough: challenging authorities. Political parties: small amount of population involved. Social movement: something that has a wider and deeper reach: supposed to translate over into political parties and voting, eg. Greens: needs to be sustained to be established. Political parties: public, general/common good, contest elections, transparent, donations. Interest groups: private, one policy goal, lobby, opaque, donations. From local needs to boarder, global goals. Aligned with peace/anti-nuclear: (cid:862)(cid:373)aterial world go(cid:374)e (cid:373)ad(cid:863) post-material value, global warming, climate change. Based on post-modern values: seeking to remake society. Largely succeeded in changing overall political views now accept environmental concerns. Begins with opposition to vietnam war, nuclear testing.
