POLSCI 140- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 23 pages long!)
6 Oct 2017
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Why is doing comparative politics hard: causation vs. Correlation: a is not caused by b, but by something else that is not observed, a and b are both caused by something else, c, fish reading: lags in economic development and democracy both apparent in. This could be unethical, but it could also affect our results. Consent is automatic and not contested: but states were not always the dominant form of political organization, the nation, a political identity that may or may not overlap with state boundaries (kurdistan, Tibet, scotland, quebec); often ethnically or racially defined. Conflict often produced by state/nation boundaries that do not neatly overlap: society, groups and organizations that link citizens up voluntarily (beyond familial ties or the workplace). The state can be more or less autonomous from society. Both extremes (high and low levels of autonomy tend to be problematic: high autonomy > state predation, low autonomy > state capture.
