POL S240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Political Geography, Comparative Politics, Authoritarianism
12 Jul 2018
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4 step process: brainstorm the topics/ angles/ main points. 2: sorting - create hierarchies and relationships. 4. looking at the bigger picture, reconsider, edit look for commonalities - grouping ideas. Not passive, deeply reactive. no institutionalized way of responding to the state does not mean they do not respond. Embracing of folk practicing. given the degree of diversity and dif culty of social cohesion the government faces a real challenge in trying to address all the different needs. Summation of politics: internal crises and external pressures. all about the elites, the elite mindset. Trauma of early transition to statehood. a country for a variety of reasons want to be involved in china in some way. Tumultuous state making who you know and who you are is important, power of a speci c person will determine policy, outcomes, and survival. not about bureaucratic stability but about rising and falling fortunes of speci c communist individuals.
