POLS 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Medes, Theocracy, Zero-Sum Game

• School: Emory University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 120
• Professor: Remington Thomas

Document Summary

Introduction to comparative politics ch. Challenge and change in comparative politics a. Global processes b. c. i. ii. iii. Richer countries are getting richer, poorer countries are not. Barriers of goods, information, capital, labor are coming down; barriers to the flow of these ideas, capitals, and products. Different concepts of the nation - nation = first way that we feel bonded. In the sense of kinship. Unity can lead to exclusion. Nation - a community based on common ethnicity; kinship terms, common blood, ancestry. Religion: unity, pluralism, conflict a) b) Some nations are formed from religion. Barriers of goods, information, capital, labor are coming down; barriers to the flow. Nation - a community based on common ethnicity; kinship terms, common blood, Vision of the nation founded on the idea of our rights and responsibilities as c. d. e. Vision of the nation founded on the idea of our rights and responsibilities as citizens. Some nations are constructed on common citizenship.