POLI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Communist Party Of Korea, David Easton, Mathematical Analysis

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 201
• Professor: Timothy Anderson

Document Summary

Politics as a systemic process: david easton first applied analysis of systems to politics. He called (cid:862)autho(cid:396)itati(cid:448)e de(cid:272)isio(cid:374)-(cid:373)aki(cid:374)g(cid:863: inputs (demand and supports) political system outputs (decisions & actions) [feedback loop, look at figure 22. 1 in textbook pg 222. Al(cid:373)o(cid:374)d & po(cid:449)ell"s charts: interest (business, ethnic, racial, etc, demands expectations supports, (cid:455)ste(cid:373) [i(cid:374)fo(cid:396)(cid:373)al (cid:894)(cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e to ha(cid:448)e the(cid:373)(cid:895) & fo(cid:396)(cid:373)al (cid:894)(cid:374)eeded(cid:895) institutions, interest group political parties communication media, assemblies executive bureau & jud. Interest group conflict: often, interest groups are at odds with each other, for ex: farmers wanted the federal government to require gasoline contain 5% ethanol. As a rule, the power of an interest group reflects ongoing inequality in society. Formal institutions: assemblies (legislatures, executives (pm, cabinet ministers, departments, bureaucracies (civil servants, courts (judges, elections. Political parties: an essential organization in liberal democracies. Roles of political parties: the number one goal of a political party is to win, winning an election bestows a party with political power.