POLS 242 Lecture Notes - Lecture 99: Pierre Trudeau, Elite Theory, Mass Media
22 Sep 2016
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Material inequality and political instability go hand in hand. Criminologists found that widening inequality leads to a ride in crime rates. Lately, support for the inequality-instability hypothesis has come from neoclassical economists. Richard easterlin what drives human happiness is not absolute but relative levels of prosperity: is it better to be a rich man in a poor society than a poor man in a rich society. Friedrich nietzche humans derive more satisfaction from gaining power over the lives of themselves and others than they do from gaining power over material objects: international relations theory. In the documentary life and debt encompasses the current radical thinking of globalization. Jamaica is portrayed as a victim rather than an agent. Neoliberal policies have been the effect of raising aggregate income but skewing its distribution, therefore causing a rise in political instability and volatility, which in turn, is undermining the viability of the neoliberal regime.
