PO101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Personal Rule, Neoliberalism, Washington Consensus
11 Oct 2020
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Elections are critical to democracy (achieving political equality, popular sovereignty, fair political competition, representing minorities, and realizing majority rule). (338 seats in total) State ambiguity: the state benefits and it threatens. It is an abstraction, but in its name, men are jailed or made rich on defence contracts, or killed in wars (edelman, 1964) They provide: political framework, political participation, social framework, redistribution of wealth, economic framework, economic and financial regulations. State capacities and their expansion size of bureaucracies/civil servants lomoar cpsd| 5490467. State capacities and their expansion government expenditures (%gdp) Why different states: the relative balance between war making, protection of clients, extraction and state making produces different organizational models of nation states. England with the role of the parliament. Holland with the strong independent capitalist class. France is the first state that taxed all its citizens and introduced a modern citizen army.
