POLI 371 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: De Jure, Negative Liberty, Structural Level

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 371
• Professor: Catherine Christopher

Document Summary

Africa only has been independent for 60 years. Level of analysis, can each support a variety of theories and units of analysis: structure, Individual level (more recent level), individual actions do matter, does not explain every outcome, not complete agency: structural level; does not explain every outcome, macro level/structural, meso-level/ institutional state, micro-level/individual. Why did the authoritarian become so common in the pre-colonial era 1950-1970 in. Southeast asia relays on commodity (dependent less now), opec crisis with oil price crashing, commodity price decline, africa has no control over commodity price. Se asia i(cid:374) the (cid:1011)(cid:1004)"s rela(cid:455) o(cid:374) e(cid:454)port (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h ga(cid:448)e (cid:373)ore jo(cid:271)s, (cid:449)hile afri(cid:272)a (cid:449)as too e(cid:454)tra(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e economy that relay on mining. Southeast asia i(cid:374) (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1012)(cid:1004)"s e(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)(cid:455) (cid:449)e(cid:374)t up (cid:449)hile afri(cid:272)a stag. How much did colonization impact the post-colonial trajectories of africa politics: borders, culture, religion, ethnicity, language & education, forms of colonial administration, settlement, institutions (legal, political, property, economics (commodity/exports)