POLS 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Western Alienation In Canada, Political Freedom, Party System
5 Mar 2015
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Political ideas may take the form of values and beliefs, personality traits, worldviews, and ideologies. Ideologies and world views serve as maps that make sense of social and political reality. Ideology: can be cultural, social, and political. Its your beliefs that simplifies and makes sense of what is going on socialism, conservatism, etc. Democracy is the foundation of the state. Political culture consists of the dominant values and expectations in the system. Fragment theory: two founding fragments in canada. Formative events: the counter-revolution and the conquest. Economic explanations very little industry in the east coast that would allow conservatism to take hold? whereas out west there is more money and greater desire to keep government out. Pm has more power than president, only the scc can only stop the pm in certain instances when certain rights are infringed upon. Us is collectivist bc they have public healthcare (if you have public healthcare you are a socialist/collectivist state)
