Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: University Of Western Ontario, Aristocracy, Montesquieu
3 Feb 2017
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Government: institutional processes involved in making and implementing collective decisions. Political system: government plus broader structures and process of interaction with society. System suggests a systematic way the parts interact, but very often, politics is not at all systematic system is not the right metaphor. Government: officials charged with routinely exercising power. Regime: fundamental rules/procedures determining who may exercise power and how. State: basis of institutional context within which these rules apply. State: more permanent institutions exercising public authority. Regime: rules determining power within state who gets to use power. Change in regime rules is rare by revolution, war, etc. Coup d(cid:859)etat e. g. military coup in turkey to overthrow government, not to change regime though. Change in government, in democracy, is very common (happens most elections) Mixed regime is best polity plus aristocracy. England 17th-19th century mixed regime, ruled by: Montesquieu: separation of powers (some here, some there, to keep the leviathan tied down)
