POLI 212 Lecture Notes - Social Democracy, Consensus Democracy, Liberal Democracy

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A political regime is, in effect, summarizing or representing the political rules of the game. What a regime defines and presents are rules that allocate power and authority among political offices and authority. It is a means through which power and authority are allocated. Formal rules implied codification- in the form of a constitution. You can also have informal rules conventions or norms that shape political expectations and behaviours. What constitutions do is separate day-to-day politics from large kinds of political principles. A constitution insulates or separates extraordinary and ordinary politics. A constitution is a mechanism that takes issues and sets them aside for the authority of a political regime. A regime sets out the rules of the game, but doesn"t necessarily play the game. In day-to-day politics the rules are challenged or questioned. There is nothing in this working definition, which tells us over whom these rules are to legitimately apply.

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