POLS 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Liberal Democracy, Conditionality, Neoliberalism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1150
• Professor: Kate Puddister

Document Summary

What do governments do: government may look different but all perform similar tasks, regulation of society security in numbers, protection. Security: welfare, to provide adequate social conditions, citizens must accept their government, otherwise they may reject their government, agency to regulate behaviour in society, administrative, legal and political structures. To maintain order and control, the government must have the support of the people. Independence, stability and economic and social well-being of all its citizens. Some governments are more affected by these goals than others and some are more concerned with their citizens well-being than others: concern over these goals and success varies. Legitimacy is key to state survival and leads to sovereignty: requires domestic legitimacy and external recognition (recognition by other countries) Peace of westphalia (1648: modern sovereign recognition of states, un security council: use responsibility to protect countries, can intervene to protect the citizens of the.