POL218Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Liberal Democracy, Comparative Politics, Traditional Authority
23 Mar 2017
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Second half: developing countries: our textbook takes a (cid:498)country approach(cid:499, there will be supplementary readings posted. United kingdom: no one will know what the united kingdom will look like, based on the un vote (brexit) recently, and the politics of northern ireland and scotland potentially wanting separations. Usa: usa is also to be determined based on the november 8 presidential vote and its current drama. Part 1 essay proposal: pick a topic, answer a question in the form of a thesis, give a rough outline (in sentence structure, give a bibliography of at least 6 annotated references (not including the mandatory books) France vs usa, etc: test essay questions are similar to essay questions, subject to interpretation. Politics: who gets what, where, when, how, why: from lasswell book title (cid:498)politics: who gets what, where, when, how? (cid:499) Interaction between politics and economics, allocation of resources, all economics activities are fundamentally shaped by political events: can be material and symbolic.
