Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Oligarchy, Group Cohesiveness, Robert A. Dahl
15 May 2020
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Lecture 34 political regimes in the present. Practice questions: canada is a federation because: the provinces have constitutional standing (in a federation the sharing of power is written in the constitution, so you cannot change the distribution of power without changing the constitution) Federalism is a constitutional distribution of power: according to aristotle, if rule by the few is exercised in the interest of all, then the regime is an aristocracy. Economic: developed in third world, nics (newly industrializing countries) Begin with japan and spreading to the rest of asia. Political: third world wave of democracy, since 1974. A major shift towards newly democratic regimes: fourth wave as of 1989-91. Soviet union loses control over countries like hungary etc. We are now more likely to talk about north and south axis, not the three worlds anymore. Instead of a single world (reduction of all countries into the first world ) we are seeing of differences of remaining alive.
