Political Science 1020E Study Guide - Final Guide: Multilateralism, Debt Relief, World Trade Organization

• School: Western University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: Political Science 1020E
• Professor: Bruce Morrison

Document Summary

Interest groups, like parties, emerge alongside representative governments: groups try to influence: bureaucracy, legislatures, courts (amicus curiae), parties and the media (changing the way people view the world to support the influenced parties) Republican model: rousseau: organized interests degrade general interests, french revolution, cleared away established interests, ba(cid:374)(cid:374)ed i(cid:374)depe(cid:374)de(cid:374)t (cid:449)o(cid:396)ke(cid:396)(cid:859)s asso(cid:272)iatio(cid:374)s, epu(cid:271)li(cid:272) as (cid:858)o(cid:374)e a(cid:374)d i(cid:374)di(cid:448)isi(cid:271)le(cid:859) Pluralist model: the core theme of pluralism is that political power is fragmented and widely dispersed. Interests will easily form into groups: competition within these groups can go too far. Legislature: makes laws, enacts the resulting legislation: executive: implementation of the laws and execution of the law, executives were initially undivided monarchical power and sovereignty over time there developed separate. Judiciary: interprets laws and adjudicates institutions that assumed legislative and judicial responsibilities and set boundaries to executive powers: the executive power remains the one indispensable part of the state.