PSC 203 Lecture 12: Political Violence
Document Summary
Measuring inequality: there are many reasons why equality matters in economics, highly unequal societies tend to grow more slowly and become politically unstable, poverty wastes human potential. Inequality can indicate deeper problems: we can measure inequality by looking at the gini index, gini index a comparison between the stray between the average gdp per capita, helps determine income distribution over a population more accurately. Income per capita: there are other measurements that compare the psychological measurements experienced by those in the country to measure inequality, happiness index measure on a psychological basis. Liberalism continues to have its supporters and detractors. Main points: defining the difference between regular violence and political violence, explaining the types of political violence and why citizens turn to political violence. Political violence: political violence politically motivated violence that is outside of state control, actions carried out by nonstate actors, part of a broader category of contentious politics , strikes, coup d" tats, revolutions, civil war, riots.
