Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Montesquieu, Politeia, Totalitarianism
2 Feb 2017
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Lecture 9 - political regimes in the past. To place in context, examine in detail, the classical or aristoelian regime classification scheme. Government: institutional processes involved in making and implementing collective decisions. Political system: government plus the broader structures and processes of interaction with society. The term system suggests a limited set of moving parts that moves systematically. Often involves unpredictable variety of actors and protestors. Regime: fundamental rules and procedures determining who may exercise power and how a. b. c. Government exercises power because they won power according to the rules that justify that. State: basic institutional context within which these rules apply a. Based on theses rules, the governments have the rights to govern. State: more permanent institutions exercising public authority (police, civil servants) Regime: rules determining distribution of power within the state. Change is unusual -- often by revolution or war. Coup d"etat (removes the government, but leaves the same rules for next government)
