Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Montesquieu, Totalitarianism
23 Feb 2017
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Government: institutional processes involved in making and implementing collective decisions. Political system: government plus broader structures and processes of interaction with society. Suggests a limiting set of moving parts that move only in a systematic way: a way that it goes in a procedure and never changing routine. Government: officials charged with routinely exercising power. Regime: fundamental rules and procedures determining who may exercise power and how: points to the rules for who gets to hold power and why. State: basic institutional context within which these rules apply. States change slowly and very rarely and only in exceptional changes. Regime: rules of determining distribution of power within the state. Who has the right to govern: election winners, eldest sons of family dynasty. Government: officials holding power based on: election win. Removes the government but leaves the same rules in place that replaces the government. First to establish the systematic understandings of regimes in the world.
