POLS-Y 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Representative Democracy, Free Market, Totalitarianism
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Nation- ethnic group that populates a country. Regimes (definition on canvas), ex: democratic republics, monarchies, and representative democracies. Political regime- formal and informal structure and nature of political power in a country, including the method of determining office holders and the relations between the office holders and the society at large. Regimes have two components: structure- institutions congress, legislature, parliament, court structure, government (executive (cabinet, bureaucracy), informal structures- patterns of behavior, norms, and practices. Has very certain rules but can"t predict outcomes. Liberal (radical)- high govt involvement ex: unemployment insurance, public education systems, ownership (highest way) Ex: taxes, regulation of business, regulates monopolies (makes sure they don"t function), Government owns everything socialist, or communist. Free market would be the middle ground, large social safety net, lots of redistribution, lots of involvement in daily economic life (china) Usa has a large social safety net, so does france.
