POL326Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Rational Agent, Liberal Democracy

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17 May 2018

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POL326 May 8th

• Liberals – allocation

• Policy reflects the background of political actors

• Realist – core of politics is security – top down approach – they look at

the state as a rational actor (but the leader of the state: president is not

supposed to be a rational actor – nature of the institutions to create

rationality)

• Liberal pluralists – bottoms up approach

• US constitutional democracy – rule of law – nobody is above the

constitution

• Presidents swear to protect the security of the people of the U“ –

wrong. They are sworn to protect the constitution

• League of nation necessary for US – why?

• Diplomats

• Open covenance openly arrived at

• Ln was an alternative to diplomacy

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