POLSCI 2XX3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Paul Samuelson, Polyarchy, Modernization Theory

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 2XX3
• Professor: Richard Stubbs

Document Summary

Identify explain discuss (1 page per term) Identify: where does it come from? (references to textbook, etc. ) There is the assumption that in the process of exchanging raw materials everyone will benefit. Trade) continue to be put forward by developed countries to developing countries to continue to do what has not worked in the past! We keep preaching free trade when we know it has only brought development to some and not to others. Identify notion associated with robert dhal, pluralist theories of democracy. Explain the meaning polyarchy according to robert dhal; we can only approximate the idea of democracy! Conditional definitions; the definition only makes sense when one is borrowing the foreign model if also one tries to put in place all of the conditions that make it possible for democracy to exist here. Theoretical frameworks that tried to account for the failure of developing countries to develop: modernization theories (relevant today)