POLSCI 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Timocracy, Social Contract, Resource Curse

• School: U of M
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 140
• Professor: Gallagher

Document Summary

It is a measure that weights the number of parties by the share of votes ors eats. Achieved through political campaigns and social mobilization. 30 million people died from starvation and violence. Great proletariat cultural revolution 1-2 million dead. Many people sent down to the countryside or put in prison for extended terms. A whole generation of youth lost the chance for education when schools closed from 1957-1979 during the cultural revolution. China: the first to do reform; the only country to survive it. Many socialist countries in the 80s began to reform their economies. Socialism tends to produce a big push of extensive growth, with declining returns, slow growth, lack of productivity. Allowed markets to develop for basic goods. Allowed farmers to farmland as if it was private. Allowed some coastal areas to attract foreign investment and to engage in foreign trade. Began to open up socially, politically, and economically to global capitalism.