POL S 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mercantilism, Make America Great Again, Social Democracy
QUIZ NEXT CLASS - READ FOR WEEK 5 BY TUESDAY
MIDTERM THURSDAY 4/26/18 -- STUDY TERMS, MAKE QUIZLETS, REVIEW LECTURE NOTES (focus heavily on
terminology from the book)
-- CH 1 - 3
Review from last week
Patriotism
○
Citizenship: one's relationship with the state
○
Ethnic identity: set of institutions that binds a group together
i.e. religion, language, culture, history, etc.
§
Ethic groups: same thing, people bound together by culture
§
○
Ethnic conflict
Political outcome that needs to be explained (as a function of some variable)
Y = f(x)
□
X = variable that could lead to tension
Inequality, competition for resources, power, etc.
®
□
F =
□
Y = ethnic conflict as a political outcome
□
§
Ethnic conflict as a result of particular institutions (i.e. religion) <-- MAINLY religious unrest
Fundamentalism: the belief that religion should influence the state
□
i.e. ISIS
□
§
○
National identity/nationalism
Palestine as a nation and ethnicity
§
○
Ethnic group vs. nation = desire for statehood
A nation is an ethnic group that wants to be a separate state
i.e. Palestine is an ethnic group that wants sovereignty over a defined piece of territory
□
§
○
Ethnicity
Ascribed/assigned at birth
§
○
•
Political Attitudes (nondescriptive forms of identity)
Distinction between political attitudes and [classical] political ideology
Political attitudes can influence political ideology… they are not equal
§
○
Political attitudes (about pace of political change)
Radical: wanting sudden and rapid change (moving forward to some ends)
§
Conservative: skeptical of change and want to keep the. Status quo
§
Liberal: thinks politics should change at a slow and progressive pace
§
Reactionary: wanting to go back to some previous state (rapidly and suddenly); wanting large
transformations in government (moving backwards to previous times)
i.e. Nazis and Neo-Nazis
Wanting to "restore the Germanic race" and go back to that time
®
□
i.e. MAGA and Trump Supporters
"Make America Great Again"
®
Go back to when America was "great"
®
□
i.e. imperial Japan circa WWII
Restoration of the emperor's power
®
Bring back Shintoism and eliminate Buddhism
®
□
Bring Japan back to its primordial foundation□
§
○
•
Political ideology (about the values that should inform and drive the political system)
Telling what the goal of politics should be
○
They specify a certain amount of freedom or equality
○
Ideologies
Liberalism
Concerned with freedom, not so much equality□
Freedom of the individual, action, and markets is most important□
John Stewart Mill□
i.e. USA□
§
Social democracy
Some free market□
Heavy state intervention in economy in order to ensure equality□
i.e. Western European Countries□
§
Fascism
Value the state above all
The state embodies the people so as an individual, freedom is not important
®
□
The state needs to be most free□
The ides of "organic wholes"□
i.e. Nazi Germany□
§
Anarchism
No state, state is dissolved□
People rule themselves□
Looking for high freedom and high equality which cannot be achieved if a state is in place□
i.e. Dark Ages of Europe□
§
Communism
Value of equality over freedom□
State ownership of enterprise□
Trying to ensure economic social equality□
i.e. USSR□
§
Mercantilism (not common anymore)
Concerns money and resources, not power□
Most strongly associated with colonialism (18th Century UK)□
§
○
•
Is the ideology the same in every country? Does the spectrum of political ideologies change country to
country?
Comparativists thing about how ideologies apply across nations
○
How they affect political culture
○
•
Political culture
Page 80 Inglehart Theorist
○
2 dimensions of political culture
Survival <------> self-expression dimension
Survival values
Economic and physical security
®
□
Self-expression/self-actualization
Achieved the basic survival needs so now you can focus on enriching the self
®
□
§
Traditional <-----> secular-rational dimension
Traditional values
Valuing the status-qui
®
Value of what came before the previous time, simply because it came before
®
Going to do what people in the past did just because they were in the past
®
Valuing deference to hierarchy
®
□
Secular-rational values
Caring about things because they are instruments to s certain goal
®
Evaluating how well something will help you achieve a set goal
®
Trying to build the best way to accomplish said goal
®
□
§
○
•
Secular-rational
Self-expression
Traditional
Survival
Section 3 Notes
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
9:00 AM
QUIZ NEXT CLASS - READ FOR WEEK 5 BY TUESDAY
MIDTERM THURSDAY 4/26/18 -- STUDY TERMS, MAKE QUIZLETS, REVIEW LECTURE NOTES (focus heavily on
terminology from the book)
-- CH 1 - 3
Review from last week
Patriotism
○
Citizenship: one's relationship with the state
○
Ethnic identity: set of institutions that binds a group together
i.e. religion, language, culture, history, etc.
§
Ethic groups: same thing, people bound together by culture
§
○
Ethnic conflict
Political outcome that needs to be explained (as a function of some variable)
Y = f(x)
□
X = variable that could lead to tension
Inequality, competition for resources, power, etc.
®
□
F =
□
Y = ethnic conflict as a political outcome
□
§
Ethnic conflict as a result of particular institutions (i.e. religion) <-- MAINLY religious unrest
Fundamentalism: the belief that religion should influence the state
□
i.e. ISIS
□
§
○
National identity/nationalism
Palestine as a nation and ethnicity
§
○
Ethnic group vs. nation = desire for statehood
A nation is an ethnic group that wants to be a separate state
i.e. Palestine is an ethnic group that wants sovereignty over a defined piece of territory
□
§
○
Ethnicity
Ascribed/assigned at birth
§
○
•
Political Attitudes (nondescriptive forms of identity)
Distinction between political attitudes and [classical] political ideology
Political attitudes can influence political ideology… they are not equal
§
○
Political attitudes (about pace of political change)
Radical: wanting sudden and rapid change (moving forward to some ends)
§
Conservative: skeptical of change and want to keep the. Status quo
§
Liberal: thinks politics should change at a slow and progressive pace
§
Reactionary: wanting to go back to some previous state (rapidly and suddenly); wanting large
transformations in government (moving backwards to previous times)
i.e. Nazis and Neo-Nazis
Wanting to "restore the Germanic race" and go back to that time
®
□
i.e. MAGA and Trump Supporters
"Make America Great Again"
®
Go back to when America was "great"
®
□
i.e. imperial Japan circa WWII
Restoration of the emperor's power
®
Bring back Shintoism and eliminate Buddhism
®
□
Bring Japan back to its primordial foundation□
§
○
•
Political ideology (about the values that should inform and drive the political system)
Telling what the goal of politics should be
○
They specify a certain amount of freedom or equality
○
Ideologies
Liberalism
Concerned with freedom, not so much equality□
Freedom of the individual, action, and markets is most important□
John Stewart Mill□
i.e. USA□
§
Social democracy
Some free market□
Heavy state intervention in economy in order to ensure equality□
i.e. Western European Countries□
§
Fascism
Value the state above all
The state embodies the people so as an individual, freedom is not important
®
□
The state needs to be most free□
The ides of "organic wholes"□
i.e. Nazi Germany□
§
Anarchism
No state, state is dissolved□
People rule themselves□
Looking for high freedom and high equality which cannot be achieved if a state is in place□
i.e. Dark Ages of Europe□
§
Communism
Value of equality over freedom□
State ownership of enterprise□
Trying to ensure economic social equality□
i.e. USSR□
§
Mercantilism (not common anymore)
Concerns money and resources, not power□
Most strongly associated with colonialism (18th Century UK)□
§
○
•
Is the ideology the same in every country? Does the spectrum of political ideologies change country to
country?
Comparativists thing about how ideologies apply across nations
○
How they affect political culture
○
•
Political culture
Page 80 Inglehart Theorist
○
2 dimensions of political culture
Survival <------> self-expression dimension
Survival values
Economic and physical security
®
□
Self-expression/self-actualization
Achieved the basic survival needs so now you can focus on enriching the self
®
□
§
Traditional <-----> secular-rational dimension
Traditional values
Valuing the status-qui
®
Value of what came before the previous time, simply because it came before
®
Going to do what people in the past did just because they were in the past
®
Valuing deference to hierarchy
®
□
Secular-rational values
Caring about things because they are instruments to s certain goal
®
Evaluating how well something will help you achieve a set goal
®
Trying to build the best way to accomplish said goal
®
□
§
○
•
Secular-rational
Self-expression
Traditional
Survival
Section 3 Notes
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
9:00 AM
Document Summary
Quiz next class - read for week 5 by tuesday. Midterm thursday 4/26/18 -- study terms, make quizlets, review lecture notes (focu terminology from the book) Ethnic identity: set of institutions that binds a group together i. e. religion, language, culture, history, etc. Ethic groups: same thing, people bound together by culture. Political outcome that needs to be explained (as a function of some variable) X = variable that could lead to tension. Y = ethnic conflict as a political outcome. Ethnic conflict as a result of particular institutions (i. e. religion)
