POLI 351 Lecture Notes - Foreign Policy Initiative, Social Imperialism
12 Dec 2012
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1) state actors wind up shaping attitudes re: admin units, bureaucrats shape perceptions of the situation for domestic level perceptions and perceptions of leaders. Tatesman has to make a decision, has to rely on the info that administrative units provide them eg. iraq war state and military are both telling the decision makers different things. 2) institutional procedures: often be used to bias things towards one particular group over another (privilege certain groups). 4) coercive measures of the state: conscription may give some sort of shared identity. Mass conscription army may be more reluctant to go to war opposed to a reserve army. German elite hesitant to extend conscription far because the army winds up reflecting the interest of the elite. Gordon/narizny institutions of the state are a conveyor belt, state does nothing more than allow for the expression of particular interests transparent process where actors express/construct themselves within the institutions.
