POLB92H3 Lecture Notes - Statistical Significance, Voluntaryism, History Of Europe
25 Feb 2014
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Way: mw232, luncan. way@utoronto. ca, mondays 11-12, dragana bodruzic (ta, dragana. bodruzic@utoronto. ca. What are the impacts: empirical cases french revolution and russian revolution. Theme of authoritarianism and terror: basic definition, explanations, terror versus other forms of repression, causes of terror, cases terror in france, stalinist terror, the holocaust, state, regime and government. Terms that are important: structural and voluntarist explanation. Structural is a very predictable: dependent and independent variable. State does not change from election to election (ie. the police, the military, etc. ). A regime is a set of rules by which political power is allocated (democracy, elections, etc. ). Government is the person/ people in power at a given time (obama, Harper, etc. trying to explain (death of jfk). Independent variable is how you"re going to explain that (racial crisis in the us in the 1960s). explanation, and difficult for anyone to alter (saying a country cannot become a democracy because they are corrupt).
