GEOG 2337 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Public Choice
9 Feb 2020
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Fragile and failed states: social (4): demographic pressure, group tensions, human flight, brain drain, economic (2): gdp, gini, political (6): state legitimacy, public services, human rights, rule of law, security, external intervention. Failed state: failed state a political body that has disintegrated where basic conditions and responsibilities of a sovereign government are no longer functioning properly, introducing the possibility of a governmental collapse. Pathways to state failure: escalation of communal group, state predation corralling resources at the expense of other groups, regional or guerrilla rebellions, democratic collapse, succession or reform crisis in authoritarian states, post conflicts states. Issues of representation: tyranny of the majority, public choice theory, dominant minority, representative vs. Tyranny of the majority: an inherent weakness of majority in which the majority of an electorate can and does place its own interests above the minority. Public choice theory: the use of economic tools to deal with traditional problems of political science.
