POL201Y1 Lecture Notes - Market System, Scatter Plot, The Grocer
Document Summary
1950s there was a very important change in polis sci field: research was done outside of north. America and europe: driven by the cold war: between ussr and us began in early 1950 in which they were trying to divide the world through democracy and communism. Us: what will make more countries democratic, bring them under their sphere of influence under what condition do they become democratic. For the first time there are politics" in other parts of the world, no longer colonial power and subjects, now these subjects are citizens. Ex: africa was in the domain of anthropology but not a place to study politics, but many graduate students and political scientists were. Inspired" by decolonization: driven by economic growth: rise in gdp, end of ww2 world economy took off, extreme growth existed even in poor countries (ex: turkey, latin america), lead to infrastructure change.
