POL314H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Peter J. Katzenstein, Comparative Politics
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The incubent govts face the problem that the longer they are in. Power the more problems the population finds wiith them. There are big advamtages to being in a govt. You can control the timing of an election. Does it lead us to take a look at things differently. Political parties and the motivations of the cognitive voter. There are problems with the unit of analysis. There is also time horizons are they thinking retrospectively or future pormises. Makes the ase that socio tropic econooic evalution matter more. Who is responsible for the performance of the economy. How exposed are domestic economies to international markets. Export dependent economies cannot be responsible for economic performance. Peter katzenstein argues that small states the international political economy matters and is dependent on exports. Ron rogaoski: commerce + coalitions the way in which people form coalitions is dependent on internal vs. internal challenges. The implication is that state boundaries don"t matter that much.