POL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Totalitarianism, Anthony Downs, Oligarchy
26 Feb 2016
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Territorial, military states organize themselves into territorial areas. Liberal become organized a series of basic liberal freedoms. Changing class conflicts and interests? (marx and engels) the liberal struggles were waged by the emerging merchant class, as they fought against the aristocrats. The emerging working class and feminists were the key players in the democratic states. Welfare states were created by the people who needed the help of the government. Or popular protests and elite response? (tilly) violence v. legitimacy. The popular protests, and the responses of the elites. Democratic states were protests that the elites fought tooth and nail. They are lenses, or set of connected ideas about how the world works they are separate from the world itself. They do not have to be adopted by those existing in the world to be valuable: e. g. Marxism as a perspective can be useful in explaining all states, not only those where there are some people calling themselves marxists.
