POLS 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Party System, Proportional Representation, Red Tory
16 Jan 2017
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Issues in canadian politics midterm (mixture of textbook and slides) Politics: decision making process: (what, when and how) How: (the concept for democracy): to pick a representative to represent our ideas. Government: set of institutions that make and enforce public decision. Fixing problems resulting from government actions and policies. State: independent self-governing country who are able to make and enforce rules that are binding on the people living within a particular territory. Ideology: body of ideas used in support of economic, political, and social theory. Public administration: they way that the government conducts themselves. Policymaking is a big component of public administration. Direct democracy: people have a direct say in matters of the state. Referendums: a vote when the people have a say. Representative democracy: people appoint representatives to speak for them in matters of the state. Deliberate democracy: governing decisions made based on discussions by citizens. Capitalism: economic system based on the private ownership and the free market.
