PSCI260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Univers, Inta, Uch
22 Sep 2015
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If they do matter, how are they imp ortant: definition of political institutions. To manage political cleavages so that a country does not dissolve into civil war. Quebec vs. the rest of canada: institutional options in the 1860s. Option 1: a unitary system of government. All crucial government with provinces and municipalities being dependencies or creations of the central government. Option 3: a less centralized federal system where governmental powers are shared between a central government and provinces; if there is any doubt about which government is responsible, the task falls to the provinces. Preserve and protect the functioning of markets. Integrate citizens into a national community; create social and political cohesion. Provide a social welfare net to ensure that citizens have an adequate income, and access to education and to basic social ser vices. Globalization the growth of trans-planetary - an in recent times also more particularly supraterritorial - connections between people.
