POL SCI 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Path Dependence, Rogers Smith, Israel Zangwill
5 Dec 2015
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Trajectory (increase in federal power), logic of nationsalization: basis: implied powers, n & p, interstate (sc) Pros and cons (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Distinctive and patterned way of thinking about how political and economic life should be carried out. Peoples" assumptions about how political processes should operate. Pol liberty and individual rights (lockeian liberalism: individualism: individuals are fundamental societal units, Egalitarianism: pol egalitarianism: access to pol culture, laissez-faire economic egalitarianism: eq econ opp not econ outcome. Populism: public affairs left to people/public interest. Shapes policies in 2 ways: smaller role for government: limits issues on agenda, shapes and select appropriate solutions selection bias . Apc exceptionalism: americanism is fundamentally ideological in nature. No competition of ideology, defined by ideology. Being american is about adhering to a basic set of beliefs about political and social life. Hofstadter: been our fate as nation not to have ideologies, but to be one.
