POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - International Financial Institutions, Mass Politics
19 Nov 2012
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West: state first, nation second, followed by mass politics. The rest, this sequence not always followed. A modicum of modernization (education, urbanization, industrialization) Weak civil societies: voluntary associations that are non-governmental people can join. Democratic politics: programmatic versus clientelisitc/charismatic: based on parties formally similar to ours, people are paid to vote in lesser developed countries, highly personalistic. Institutional overload: raw social power confronting states unmediated by institutions of civil societies and political parties. International financial institutions apply pressures of their own. Post-colonial state precedes nation. problems of tribalism and national integration. Dysfunction of parties (elections are ethnic censuses) Economic development policies meant to sustain state rather than create wealth. Mass politics, weal loyalties to the center, weak institutions create unrest and sometimes civil was over distributional struggle. Military steps in to restore order temporarily (patterns of latin america, africa, asia post- Problem: no ideology, so ultimately step aside.
