POSC 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Civic Society
4 Dec 2017
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Germany: rulers who came to power through particular institutions can destroy the very institution. Putin and oligarchs, stalin and oligarchs (research: one party state. Putin"s suppression of his party: reaction to the political systems and inaction as a herd to be left alone. Green grocer example: professional ethics instead of blindly following (conformity, paramilitary, reflective if you"re armed. Rule of law can be an institution; military, courts, police. rule of law, lack of a civic society. Rule of law, conformity: stand out, language: tv, look at the bigger. Totalitarian rhetoric: believe in truth; bombass chapter, investigate, make eye contact and small, corporeal politics: interact with transparency. Competitive elections, different ideas: private life- russia and rights communism- appetite for secret, good causes, free associations. Civic society, rights opposed by authoritarians: new experiences + information. Learning from other countries: comfort in submitting to authority propaganda, authoritarians = terror managers. Rule of law, civic society, rights. page 105 example v. imp.
