PSC 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Economic Inequality, World Trade Organization
2 Oct 2016
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Above: states are losing power as states gain more power. Example: the un, wto having more power. The state does not have enough power it used to have. Below: states gain power as others lose more power. Example: states/countries breaking off as their own. Global terrorism: regimes: (1= free, 7= not free); the state runs with political rights and civil liberties, in a 1-7 scale. Political rights: ability to tell the state what to do. Corruption: doing something that is not part of what you go by the law. Example: tipping for more alcohol at a bar: non-democracy: who is able to vote, do things for the economy, waves- wave of democracy. Slow tiny changes over time make no one notice the change. Europe- hitler, world war ii; germany, poland; europe gaining democracy back after war. India becomes democratic also: comparative economies, six considerations, allocation mechanisms: who decides what to make, how to make it and what it looks like.
