GLBL 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Thomas Piketty, Zapatismo, Arab Spring
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The art or science concerned w guiding or influencing government policy. The art or science concerned w winning and holding control over a govt. The process by which coercive power is legitimately applied. Generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior w/in civil govts, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the corporate, academic, and religious segments of society. The intensification and expansion of political interrelations across the globe . Politics is basically cultural a political culture is the particular social construction in every society of what counts as political" . Linkage of democracy to capitalism has been falling apart . Pivotal economic text: capital, by thomas piketty (2014) Predicted that the rates of inequality across the world are not flukes of the system, but are inherent to it therefore, it will only increase over time.
