POL 101W Lecture Notes - Advocacy Group, Human Rights Commission, Fraser Institute
19 Nov 2012
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Non-state actors and social movements: social movements influence society to change mindframe, social movements, unconventional means, over time develop an instionalized groups, civil disobedience. Bureaucrats the courts the media transional level. Are interest groups too powerful: yes! casino analogy interests groups have large finicial funding, eventually bankrupt ngo lobbying super funding. Political socialization: accepting of certain sources. Ei, global warming: we accept fact from unknown sources social groups/interest groups is a mechanism of democracy. Democracy is about having the ability to freely campaign social interest of a group movements. Human rights: arbitary arest=>human right movement. No single event that culiminated its formation. World represenation, equates to different faces of its organization: canada gp= more activist, china gp= green econoimcs. Volitare: i detest your views but im glad your fighting for them. 1984 est, originally christian conference of asia took out christian name, hired non christians so that it could develop over time cause= against tortue.
