SOCIOL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Political Machine, Nonpartisanism, Land-Grant University
14 Nov 2018
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Institutional theories of power: how institutions matter (continued) Ii: different kinds of political institutions different outcomes even w/ the same inputs. Method: comparative- historical: outcomes only emerge over fairly long periods, how power grows or contracts: role of political parties, edward banfield political influence (mayor daley"s chicago machine vs. Non-partisan ca: chicago machine (1) role of political parties in accumulating power (2) party ran without much oversight (3) machine relied on ethnic populations who would vote however ward boss told them to b) In third world (yugoslavia, somalia, indonesia vs mexico, taiwan, Turkey: cuba vs vietnam in the 1960"s. Coordinated market economies taking different paths in scandinavian countries vs germany: how political alignments reinforce or undermine institutional patterns, resources to connect organization to state, centralization of planning. If americans didn"t believe in paying taxes, they"d stop a: there are countries where people don"t believe in tax system gov impaired by fact that people don"t pay taxes.
