POLB50Y3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Majority Rule, Environmental Protection, Collective Action
25 Jan 2013
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Institutional approaches they are rules and sets of ideas. We"re in an institution because we are in a context of set rules. There are specific rules that govern our context. Senate, supreme court, parliament, bureaucracy, university are institutions) Electoral system different ways of counting the result of a vote. Each person gets to vote, they just need to rank them. Institutions shape the voting behaviour of people. If we change the rule of the electoral system we get first past-the-vote system where the most votes of the party wins. Federalism emerged because there were different groups in society. The provinces are institutions because they have borders that people have created. Weakness of the senate in the us everybody is concern about their senate. Canada, our senate is powerless because it doesn"t have any real power. There"s impact of culture in our charter in canada the extent to which we have rights barrier.
