POL101Y1 Lecture : Lecture 24 April 8 Review
POL103: Review
April, 08
Final Exam
two essay questions: broad and interpretive
20 MC
comprehensive but concentrate more on part of the course after the midterm
2-5pm, Benson Building, April 22nd
Part 1: Marx & Weber
origins and causes of modernity
class bourgeoisie over feudalism
economic power -> social power -> political power
role of ideas
capitalists and protestantism had an elective affinity which reinforced each other
the ideas in common are delayed gratification
leading of sober, rational, and orderly life which may ultimately to a better end (but you do not
know for sure)
state
legitimacy based on 3 modes:
legal rational
based on contracts
traditional
time immemorial
charismatic
force of personality 0f leader
dynamics of change
Western Europe: Institutions and Development
Britain & Canada v.s. Germany & US
Constitutions (ancient (unwritten) vs. modern (written))
parliamentary vs. presidential: Britain vs. US.
electoral and party systems: Duverger's law
Federalism
Welfare state and its future
Liberalism and its in-system critics: (liberalism, cultural conservatism, multiculturalism, democratic
socialism, feminism)
they dont want to get rid of liberalism but views the problems as something which much be
addressed for liberalism to survive
cultural conservatism: Bloom's critique (contradictions of liberalism: training ppl all values are
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multiculturalism: liberal democracies are not unbiased to culture (upward mobility only
possible through assimilation)
democratic socialism: welfare state does not make enough concessions to achieve its own
promises
feminism: similar to multiculturalism argument, liberalism being gender neutral is not true, and
by not addressing the gender differences we will never achieve true liberalism
Communism & Post-Communism
from Lenin to Stalin: Institutional Design
www.notesolution.com
Document Summary
20 mc comprehensive but concentrate more on part of the course after the midterm. Part 1: marx & weber origins and causes of modernity class bourgeoisie over feudalism. Constitutions (ancient (unwritten) vs. modern (written)) parliamentary vs. presidential: britain vs. Communism & post-communism from lenin to stalin: institutional design www. notesolution. com revolution will occur only through professional full time revolutionaries revolution can occur b/c russia has gone through industrial revolution or b/c you can jump through the stages of history. Lenin solved how institutional design of part would look like. Stalin solved how institutional design of the political part would look like: replica of capitalist modernity with its own controlled market economy, and own rules established rule with terror. From stalin to gorbachev: institutional crisis terror is substitute for the market, and without terror the market returns with stalins death terror ended and party reorganized. 1991-present: institutional transformation and variation in outcomes countries who joined eu adopted capitalist democracy and thrived.