PO263 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Bertrand De Jouvenel, Rand Dyck, David Easton
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Cleavages: divisions that separate political communities, canadas core or dominant cleavages, geography, ethnicity. Ideology: que tion: what, i(cid:374) (cid:455)our opi(cid:374)io(cid:374), are ca(cid:374)ada"s (cid:373)ost i(cid:373)porta(cid:374)t (cid:272)lea(cid:448)ages toda(cid:455), language: english and french, race, religion, gender, political views, geographical (rural vs city) Politics of government: the activity of gathering and maintaining support for human projects (bertrand de. Regime: the for(cid:373) of a (cid:272)ou(cid:374)tr(cid:455)"s go(cid:448)er(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t, defines the source of political power, logically leads to the identification of particular political institutions & actors as legitimate public decision makers. And : the underlying principles that provide the legitimate basis for that form of government, determines how political institutions. Actors are expected to act and interact: establishes for example, what specific type of democracy a state will have, determines how political institutions & actors will be assessed, essentially, a regime changes as needs of the population change. It is forever changing and will never stop.
