POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Blackboard
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How governments run and operate the country, how they interact with citizens and govern them. Effort to understand why the political world it is the way it is . How, and why two main questions to ask (stonewall uprising trailer) legality of homosexuality -> early 1960s (david cameron supports gay marriage legislation) How did that political ideology in the early 1960s change from the 1st to the 2n? (segregation at all costs) -> also in early 1960s (obama being first black president) This is not true in all countries like in rwanda . The rights we enjoy in the west, including canada, have come at an extremely hefty price that was paid by other people throughout the century through experiences of expulsion, mass murder, medical experimentations (pick up in january) Politics identification, variation across time and space. Taxes- in us are extremely low, extremely high in sweden. High taxes are a great evil according to us.