POLI 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Corporatism, History Of Europe
6 Feb 2016
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Weak institutions give chance for corruption and favouritism. The failed states: loss of monopoly over physical force (war): ex somalia, afghanistan. This concept was only brought up in the 90s due to problems of legitimacy: the inability to design and implement public policies on things like natural disasters like in the haiti earthquake that destroyed the government. The failure may only be partial, only in some areas it may fail while it may be ne in other areas for example, in mexico, R2p: the responsibility to protect - a moral responsibility of the international community to intervene in certain cases. Corruption is a vicious cycle in that if the individual knows his taxes are going to politicians" pockets, he is less likely to pay them and more likely to bribe people and engage in the cycle. Corporatism: a more common in latin america, state society relationships revolve around.
