Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Aristocracy, Oligarchy, Leviathan
4 Mar 2019
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Week 5: lecture 9: political regimes (tuesday, february 05,2019) Degrees of institutionalization (degrees of durability of the different. State: more permanent institutions exercising public authority, hard shell; things that tend to stay the same, state has monopoly on coercion, change is exceptional (i. e. crimes) Regime: who gets to hold the power to govern, and why, election winners, royal family dynasty, change is unusual, often by revolution or war. Government: o cials holding power based on election wins, legitimate succession, and coup d"etat, changes in government are fairly common (democratic change) Aristotle : mixed regime is best (polity + aristocracy, worried about tyranny of majority. England 17-19thc: mixed regime, rule by one (monarchy) or many (house of lords) Challenges to classical approach: state formation raised issues of sovereignty, need for leviathan, where does sovereignty reside, leash the leviathan, locke: must set clear constraints on constitutional power, montesquieu: separation of powers.
