POL 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: International Relations, Comparative Politics
8 Feb 2016
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1-canadian politics within the field of political science. Political science is divided into 4 sub fields : political theory/thought normative questions, higher level of abstraction. Think of the politics of canada when they formulate their questions: international relations traditionally presented the interstate relations. 2-the study of canadian politics: themes and evolution. Themes: aboriginal politics, linguistic diversity/bilingualism, population diversity, nationalism, federalism, legal perspective common law and civil law, anglo democracy relation to the crown. Things that have changed : provinces: more talk about the provinces as political communities, mega cities within the provinces hold distinct population percentages o. 3-the comparative turn and the future of the study of canadian. Thing that has most changed in canadian politics is that scholars study only canada for all their careers is no more. Conventional academic reason, there are gains to be made by putting canada in the comparison perspective canadian politics about aboriginals against australian politics with aboriginals (cid:1) politics. (cid:1)
