POL218Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Economic History, Comparative Politics, Eurocentrism
6 Apr 2020
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The economy we live in is capitalism-based. Capitalist economies run on fundamental liberal political ideas. However there are tensions between a liberal economy and a liberal democratic society (they are not compatible). At a macro-level they share fundamental principles with certain kinds of belief systems yet they don"t always operate in the same way. Canada and uk for example: we adopted all parliamentary institutions of the uk and it gave us our own legislative body yet we changed in ways very different from the. We now have a written constitution which is very different from the british for example. The political institutions, states, relationships between state and economy are all different. It is what explains the differences across countries. It looks at domestic politics of both the countries and its people. We are dealing with one of the subfields in political science.
