POLS 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Civil Society, Royal Assent, Social Capital

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1400
• Professor: Nanita Mohan

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Note: post-midterm material will be directed more towards the written component (short answer section) on final exam. How to form a political party: you need to have at least 250 members, you need to have a leader, you need to run at least one candidate in an election. Canada; they focus on more material things like salaries and benefits: we"ve become a post-material society so the focus is more on interest groups and less on politics. Example exam question: compare political parties with interest groups. Types of interest groups: economic include business (most powerful); labour (canadian union of public. Employees look at materialistic interests of employees); and agriculture (canadian. Farmer"s association: non-economic religious (canadian council of churches) and ethnic groups; successful if and when they merge together, the closer you get to becoming an association, the closer you are to becoming an interest group.